[jexp]

Shouldn’t it be possible since forever to put machine readable source information into PDF metadata. It’s more a problem of the tools and programs generating the PDFs.

We spend millions turning structured information into PDFs and billions to extract the same data from a printer rendering language

[neonmagenta]

Exactly. But we have no real coordination or uniform application in how we're creating PDFs across all these programs so we always end up with a fun mix of what will and wont be static, scalable, searchable

[pg_bot]

Yes this is already possible. You can look up the ZUGFeRD standard for an example of how this is done for German invoices.

[pg_bot]

See also:

https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-2-0-application-note-002-assoc...

[vjvjvjvjghv]

Exactly. It’s pretty insane that we have converged on storing documents as PDF. And it looks like no work is done on making PDF files machine readable.