*"It doesn’t have text in the way you might think of it, but more of a mapping o...

		hilbert42 78 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem "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