[lxgr]

Yes, but each string to be rendered is one line of text at best (meaning you need to detect line wraps and heuristically distinguish them from paragraph breaks), and often just a single word or even letter at worst (due to line spacing, letter spacing, and kerning).

It’s also not ASCII or Unicode by default, but rather a list of font glyphs that might or might not have metadata associated with them that maps them back to Unicode codepoints. Accents and diacritics can be rendered as individual strokes as well.

Effectively, you’ll always need some level of OCR-like processing.

[ssl-3]

Perhaps so.

Should I be angry with Adobe about this?

(I'm still kind of leery about the move from things like groff as a quasi-presentation format, but I may come from simpler times.)