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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by scrollaway on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:40PM (#13735327)
epub is the way to go I think. PDF is an overengineered abomination. It nicely serves the purpose of "there is only one and exactly one way to render this", but then again, just about so does an image.

I also think that, with more love, epub could get there too. It's not an easy problem, but if we can crack SHA-1 I'm sure we can crack this one too :)

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by krick on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:44AM (#13738114)
I don't see how epub can be pixel-perfect. It's almost as much a markup format, as fb2. Clearly more explanation of how should it be done is in order.
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by scrollaway on Sunday February 26, 2017 @07:15PM (#13740883)
Pixel perfection is not necessary for 99.999% of the cases PDF is used in.
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by krick on Friday March 03, 2017 @05:01PM (#13787167)
That's just ridiculous statement.
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