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PDF is very good for what it was designed to do, which is to represent pages for printing. It is not so good for use cases where parsing the text is more import

PDF is very good for what it was designed to do, which is to represent pages for printing. It is not so good for use cases where parsing the text is more important than preserving layout.

pmiller2 6y ago
Indeed, I often say there's a special place in Hell where there are programmers trying to extract data from PDFs.
- paledot 6y ago
  The souls who labour there, in life, posted PDFs to websites when HTML would have sufficed.