Re:The drama in trying to convert election PDFs to Spreadsheets
by layer8 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:51AM
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> how we ended up with PDF as sort of standard to archive data.
I don’t think we really did. They are a standard for archiving typeset page-based documents.
Of course, paper documents used to be a standard for archiving data, and some continue to do so in the form of PDF.
In principle, it is possible to integrate all the structure you want in a PDF (using Marked Content, Structure Attributes and User Properties), but for data (as opposed to document structure) you’d need custom software to generate and interpret that.
I don’t think we really did. They are a standard for archiving typeset page-based documents.
Of course, paper documents used to be a standard for archiving data, and some continue to do so in the form of PDF.
In principle, it is possible to integrate all the structure you want in a PDF (using Marked Content, Structure Attributes and User Properties), but for data (as opposed to document structure) you’d need custom software to generate and interpret that.