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Re:Why do we convert structured data to PDFs? by n0rlant1s on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:48PM (#34431063)
Shouldn't both exist? I.e. PDF for the human and data for the machine?
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Re:Why do we convert structured data to PDFs? by aynyc on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:51PM (#34431107)
Each report costs money. People don't want to pay extra for the same data.
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Re:Why do we convert structured data to PDFs? by n0rlant1s on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:23PM (#34431618)
But they want to pay extra for expensive OCR software to parse it out instead?
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Re:Why do we convert structured data to PDFs? by aynyc on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:02PM (#34432224)
It's one time fee and it's probably used in other places.
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Re:Why do we convert structured data to PDFs? by 6510 on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @02:42PM (#34431919)
printers love pdf
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