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by simooooo 3407 days ago
It's because PDFs have no concept of lines or paragraphs. It's just characters at an x,y co-ord which happen to line up. So figuring out whats a line or a column is a pain in the ass.

That's most likely why copying and pasting sucks too.

1 comments

Yes, and more when you want to send a PDF based document to a Kindle.