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by xaritas 4779 days ago
> Definitely cool as a piece of gear, but not terribly practical from a client-side perspective i'd think.

Perhaps for PDFs are proprietary or sensitive. A related use case is transformation and extraction. I used this same technique recently for a client to turn VB6-generated PDF reports into HTML tables for preview, and sending the actual data to a service endpoint as JSON.