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Re:PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem by hnick on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @08:12PM (#43979331)
It can also use fonts which map glyphs via characters which do not represent the final visual item e.g. "PDF" could be "1#F" and you only really know what it looks like by rendering then viewing/OCR.

A nice file won't, but sometimes the best work is in not dealing with nice things.

Re:PDF to Text, a Challenging Problem by 90s_dev on Tuesday May 13, 2025 @11:37PM (#43980508)
See this is why we can't have nice things.