It is a crime against humanity how opaque office documents are to data extraction. So much potential and efficiency lost. as in likely hundreds of billions of

It is a crime against humanity how opaque office documents are to data extraction. So much potential and efficiency lost. as in likely hundreds of billions of dollars. Practically every single office in the world uses office suite products. There's probably a 10s to 100s of billions of person-hours or more of collective work invested in office suite documents and spreadsheets, and getting at it programmatically is not easy. Not easy is a bad term. Intentionally walled, obfuscated, undocumented, and constantly changed to maintain monopolies in core Office software as well as other "back office" products. And it's still willingly accepted by virtually all corporations and organizations worldwide.