I've worked on the other end of this: trying to make it easy to extract text from PDFs that we generated. Turns out that is pretty hard too. There just isn't a

I've worked on the other end of this: trying to make it easy to extract text from PDFs that we generated. Turns out that is pretty hard too. There just isn't a good way to include metadata about how text flows. So columns, callouts, captions, etc. all cause problems. The PDF format just wasn't designed for text extraction.