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Re:Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox by cpach on Friday July 07, 2017 @06:32PM (#14722722)
Sadly I think that often the publishers actually want it that way, i.e. the they do not want the data to be easily parsable...
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Re:Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox by beager on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:09PM (#14722936)
I think it's more that they want consistency in rendering across devices and media.
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Re:Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox by maxxxxx on Friday July 07, 2017 @07:23PM (#14723016)
For legal documents (where PDF was used first as far as I know) this may make sense but for manuals and other documents it makes no sense at all.
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