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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by amelius on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @07:43AM (#22473959)
This was done to impede automatic HTML text extraction :)
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by hippish on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @08:48AM (#22474372)
I'm curious, how would fiddling with navigation impede text extraction? The site renders perfectly fine without javascript, and the markup looks straight forward enough
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