I completely agree. After spending hours trying to programatically read something as 'common' as a PDF [not all .pdf files are created equal, I learned] - I'm t

I completely agree. After spending hours trying to programatically read something as 'common' as a PDF [not all .pdf files are created equal, I learned] - I'm totally on the side of the "Give me the content and I'll deal with the formatting" mentality.