No the hatred for PDFs is that they're filled with bloat and horribly insecure. As for OCR, we're able to handle underlines and italics for most fonts, though

No the hatred for PDFs is that they're filled with bloat and horribly insecure. As for OCR, we're able to handle underlines and italics for most fonts, though I take your point on colour. If it's especially bad they fail. Ideally it wouldn't be PNGs it would be some stripped down thing. Maybe even HTML with embeded CSS / images via data tags would fit the bill, but now we're bringing in XML-esque parsers and those are garbage too. I'm just so frustrated with dealing with PDFs. They serve a billion different purposes and they're good at none of them.