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by merb 469 days ago
This is simply not true. Maybe it’s easier and you do not need 100% precision. But it is actually possible to extract text and layout of digital pdfs. Else it would be impossible to display it. Of course some people still add image fragments to a pdf, but that practice is basically dying. I did not see a single pdf the last year we‘re it was impossible to extract the layout.