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PDF to Text, a challenging problem

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357 points ingve | 2 comments | 13 May 25 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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rad_gruchalski ◴[13 May 25 15:31 UTC] No.43974057[source]▶
So many of these problems have been solved by mozilla pdf.js together with its viewer implementation: https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/.
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1. iAMkenough ◴[13 May 25 17:05 UTC] No.43975184[source]▶
A good PDF reader makes the problems easier to deal with, but does not solve the underlying issue.

The PDF itself is still flawed, even if pdf.js interprets it perfectly, which is still a problem for non-pdf.js viewers and tasks where "viewing" isn't the primary goal.

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2. rad_gruchalski ◴[13 May 25 19:10 UTC] No.43976494[source]▶
Yeah. What I’m saying: pdf.js seems to have some of these solved. All I’m suggesting is have a look at it. I get it that for some PDF is a broken format.