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TZubiri on May 14, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem

As someone who has worked on this FT. (S&P, parsing of financial disclosures)

The solution is OCR. Don't fuck with internal file format. PDF is designed to print/display stuff, not to be parseable by machines.

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