Despite all recent OCR, AI and NLP technology, PDFs won't make "computational" sense unless you know in advance what kind of data you are looking for. The truth

Despite all recent OCR, AI and NLP technology, PDFs won't make "computational" sense unless you know in advance what kind of data you are looking for. The truth of the matter is that PDF was designed to convey pretty "printed" information in an era where "eyes only" was all that mattered. Today the PDF format just can't provide the throughput and reliability that interop between systems requires.