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Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by davidgerard on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @07:33AM (#24119245)
LibreOffice Draw is pretty good for editing PDFs - if you have all the matching fonts. So I wouldn't go assuming people can't edit PDFs.
Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by DrAwdeOccarim on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @06:33AM (#24130441)
They'd need to put in a ticket to get it installed, which I would need to approve. But also, this isn't to stop malice it's to stop accidental edits. I can't stop my employees from messing with things if they want to. That's where the trust part and common goals come into play.
Re:PDF: Still unfit for human consumption, 20 years later by drawkbox on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:29AM (#24119597)
The document can be tampersealed to help prevent or at least notify of that.

In a way a locked tampersealed document is a pretty decent template for parsing data as well. It is messy as PDFs always are but a decent lib and a consistent source with sealed docs can be used for decently verifiable scraping.

For instance some sort of license, certification or official document like tax forms, it can be generated with a common output, tampersealed and then reliably parsed after verification.