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PDF Hell: Why Is Extracting Data Still a Nightmare? (2024)
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- bediger4000 2y agoI have a suspicion it's because business typically uses Windows, which means Word and Excel handle the data. Business people view it one page at a time. Manual cut-n-paste moves data, which is tedious. There's no conception of data without formatting. Hence PDFs as the only data format given out.