you simply have a tool which extracts the text, transforms it however you please, and then puts it back as an image. Then you still need some way to handle tex

you simply have a tool which extracts the text, transforms it however you please, and then puts it back as an image. Then you still need some way to handle text, and image to text is not reliable. Text simply has so much more distilled information. Images are nice for humans, but I can't imagine them as a storage format for programs.