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You nailed it. Aside from that anyone who is serious about search is going to run it through an OCR and get the raw text anyway. Why bother doing more work?
by rossenberg79 7y ago
You nailed it. Aside from that anyone who is serious about search is going to run it through an OCR and get the raw text anyway. Why bother doing more work?
- lostlogin 7y agoOffering a plain text file with the odd “[redacted text]” alongside a formatted PDF is hardly onerous. That said, there are numerous instances of governments releasing a .doc or similar and someone opening it and doing a few presses of ‘undo’.
- rossenberg79 7y agoThere’s just no reason to. Someone will fuck it up, and it will not have been worth the effort anyway.