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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by maxxxxx on Saturday February 25, 2017 @01:42PM (#13733039)
PDF has no paragraphs, often not even words. No concept of font notes. It doesn't flow well with different screen sizes.

If you designed a real bad format on purpose, it would be hard to top PDF. Maybe Photoshop files are worse.

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by brianwawok on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:38AM (#13737680)
Have you seen the spec for .doc and .xls ?
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by maxxxxx on Sunday February 26, 2017 @01:08PM (#13738627)
I don't even want to know :)
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by grkvlt on Monday February 27, 2017 @09:23AM (#13744373)
Oh, you really do! The format for COM object based documents like XLS and DOC is actually a FAT filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format
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