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PDF to Text, a challenging problem

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357 points ingve | 1 comments | 13 May 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.355s | source
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bob1029 ◴[13 May 25 16:13 UTC] No.43974521[source]▶
When accommodating the general case, solving PDF-to-text is approximately equivalent to solving JPEG-to-text.

The only PDF parsing scenario I would consider putting my name on is scraping AcroForm field values from standardized documents.

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1. layer8 ◴[13 May 25 16:23 UTC] No.43974634[source]▶
If you assume standardized documents, you can impose the use of Tagged PDF: https://pdfa.org/resource/tagged-pdf-q-a/