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I have no experience in handling raw PDF data, but as a user, I sometimes notice that the computer is not reading the PDF text the same way as I'm reading it. H
by lake99 7y ago
I have no experience in handling raw PDF data, but as a user, I sometimes notice that the computer is not reading the PDF text the same way as I'm reading it. Here are a few examples:
1. When searching (Ctrl+F) a commonly used phrase that occurs multiple times in a PDF, some occurrences fail to show up because of line breaks, accidental hyphenation, etc.
2. Once in a while, I come across PDF files where searches for words containing "fi", "ff", etc. fail because of some insane ligature glyph replacements.
3. Some PDF files that have a two-column layout for text still treat lines across the two columns as one line. Search fails again.