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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: 0.213s | source
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dwheeler ◴[13 May 25 16:22 UTC] No.43974621[source]▶
The better solution is to embed, in the PDF, the editable source document. This is easily done by LibreOffice. Embedding it takes very little space in general (because it compresses well), and then you have MUCH better information on what the text is and its meaning. It works just fine with existing PDF readers.
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1. layer8 ◴[13 May 25 16:26 UTC] No.43974667[source]▶
That’s true, but it also opens up the vulnerability of the source document being arbitrarily different from the rendered PDF content.