> We pushed hard for a true digital format like html with a printable format, but the powers that be want a 1:1 replica for Search Warrants and Judges Orders.

> We pushed hard for a true digital format like html with a printable format, but the powers that be want a 1:1 replica for Search Warrants and Judges Orders. Is there a reason you can't have both? Presumably you have structured data at some point, before it's laid out on the page and saved as PDF. Why not just save that alongside the PDFs? You could also serialize it and include it in a PDF metadata field, so it can be extracted from the files even if the database is lost.