Here in Germany, at least thesis works will usually be required as PDF and ran through a checker (which will then, in turn, register the work). It doesn't seem

Here in Germany, at least thesis works will usually be required as PDF and ran through a checker (which will then, in turn, register the work). It doesn't seem to be overly important (it seems, for example, everyone copies that required front page ;) ), but they did catch a missing source in the thesis of a friend of mine, so they do look at it.