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I can imagine something even more obtuse: have the pdfs contain bitmap renderings of the pages, so you would need not to parse them, but OCR them... Unfortunat
by vetinari 12y ago
I can imagine something even more obtuse: have the pdfs contain bitmap renderings of the pages, so you would need not to parse them, but OCR them...
Unfortunately, this is not my wild imagination, but this happened in this reality. Sad, I know.
- PeterisP 12y agoA classic practice is to archive pdf's of printed and scanned documents, instead the source digital documents - based on the concept that you need to have any signatures, approval stamps or notes/amendments as they might be on the actual document. So instead of an excel worksheet you get a scanned picture that's possibly even unusable for OCR if someone has a wide signature and some line(s) of it go inside the actual table.