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Many reasons. In finance, PDF reports are passed between companies instead of JSON/XML, etc.. because: 1. PDF is considered tempered proof. Obviously, not true
by aynyc 4y ago
Many reasons. In finance, PDF reports are passed between companies instead of JSON/XML, etc.. because:
1. PDF is considered tempered proof. Obviously, not true, but legal is ok with that.
2. PDF can be reviewed quickly by non-technical folks, and then parsed and store into databases.
3. PDF is flat file that can be archived easily per legal, other formats such as word documents are used for that as well.
In a sense, PDF is what people want. Structured data is what machines want.
- n0rlant1s 4y agoShouldn't both exist? I.e. PDF for the human and data for the machine?