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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by Mikhail_Edoshin on Sunday February 26, 2017 @02:31AM (#13736143)
Microsoft XPS?
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by krick on Sunday February 26, 2017 @11:47AM (#13738136)
This is interesting. I never considered this one. How is it inferior to PDF, so that it is so much less widely spread?
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by Mikhail_Edoshin on Sunday February 26, 2017 @10:17PM (#13741604)
It's not as versatile (no forms, for example), but layout- and prepress-wise it seems to be as good as PDF (with the benefit that it retains the structure).
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