I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it. That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet

I see the value in this, and thank you for posting it. That said, it really makes me wonder at how insanely inefficient information transfer over the internet can become. This is like... doing OCR on screenshots of PDFs to send messages, rather than just passing around text. Nice, searchable, parseable, indexible, extremely compressible, editable, readily versionable text.