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As the article stated, in this specific case the bank used an "invisible" character (a minus sign) to assist in alignment .. which resulted in errors when parsi
by defrost 2mo ago
As the article stated, in this specific case the bank used an "invisible" character (a minus sign) to assist in alignment .. which resulted in errors when parsing the text nodes by layout.
OCR of a digital image generated from those PDF draw commands only operates on the visible portions that are rendered.
Another case to be considered .. FOI requests for documents from "pain in the arse" government departments or law firms can result in "digital documents" that are deliberately generated to be difficult to process (go figure) .. eg: filled with circular and spaghetti draw commands that "print correctly" but are a nightmare horror show to parse.
( "technically compliant" is a legally compliant "fuck you" )
- TZubiri 2mo agoI've had a non technical user ask me how to convert a document to PDF so that it's not editable or copypasteable by someone else. And also ask me how to edit a pdf. PDF is used as DRM by obfuscation by non technical users, it's a sort of emergent phenomenon that occurs hundreds of times per day. And it turns out it's a quite effective tool at that, if anything it associates a cost to editing/copying/automatic processing. In terms of technically compliant, a PDF is as much of a sensible requirement as USB or String types. It checks the box, but it's likely that there's a lot of additional work into integrating two systems that input and ouput these envelope protocols/encoding, because they are purposefully too broad.