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Re:Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms by benmmurphy on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @07:18AM (#24565592)
You can make the text uncopyable by using non-standard font indexing. The reader will be able to copy the text but it will be gobbly-gook. It forces the user to OCR the PDF or reverse the font mapping.
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Re:Embedded PDF viewer in Firefox 81 supports filling forms by hnick on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @11:21PM (#24574926)
And ain't that a treat when clients send us PDFs to sort, print, and mail, but the address extraction fails completely.
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