"It doesn’t have text in the way you might think of it, but more of a mapping of glyphs to coordinates on “paper”." I've often had trouble extracting text from

"It doesn’t have text in the way you might think of it, but more of a mapping of glyphs to coordinates on “paper”." I've often had trouble extracting text from PDFs, it's time consuming and messy, so a quick question. The PDF format is now pretty ancient