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by n0rlant1s 1247 days ago
Shouldn't both exist? I.e. PDF for the human and data for the machine?
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Each report costs money. People don't want to pay extra for the same data.
But they want to pay extra for expensive OCR software to parse it out instead?
It's one time fee and it's probably used in other places.
printers love pdf