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		layer8 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So you want to parse a PDF? That “obvious solution” is very reminiscent of https://xkcd.com/927/. And, as a sibling notes, it opens up the failure case of the attached data not matching the rendered PDF contents.

gcanyon 5 months ago [–]

Yeah, I'm not proposing anything new -- just that apps use what's already available: embedding the content of a PDF as JSON, similar, or even plain text.

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