Accessibility, plus print is at ridiculous DPI compared to screen. To achieve compression you want to use the fact that there is a font being repeated across the page. OCR just isn't good enough.
Are you telling me that our compression algorithms can't compress a page of "e"s tighter than a page of random Chinese characters?
Accessibility is a fair point, but for print-to-file applications we're surely at the point where OCR can at least get the text to a readable format, no?
