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		eterps on March 3, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction? Lots of people doing their daily jobs are not aware of the information loss that occurs whenever they are saving/exporting as PDF.

totololo on March 3, 2020 [–]

In the consulting industry I’ve seen PDF being used precisely because third parties couldn’t mess with the content anymore.

KineticLensman on March 3, 2020 | [–]

Yes, the company I once worked for used to supply locked PDF copies to make it slightly harder for casual readers to re-use / steal our text.

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