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Either a) those pdfs contain images or other graphics that don't compress easily or b) the text is not compressed.
by emilfihlman 8y ago
Either a) those pdfs contain images or other graphics that don't compress easily or b) the text is not compressed.
- radus 8y agoThere are definitely many images and graphics. I don't know if my sample is representative of most literature, but I don't think it's too far off..
- gpm 8y agoOr c) The text is terribly compressed. Probably a lot of the "text" is also a scan of text as well. Could be an interesting project to try and make a sci-hub optimized compression system.
- Quiark 8y agoDejaVu format