Scanning docs for bitsavers
Grant Taylor
cctalk at gtaylor.tnetconsulting.net
Mon Dec 2 22:12:16 CST 2019
On 12/2/19 9:06 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> In my opinion, PDFs are the last place that computer usable data goes.
> Because getting anything out of a PDF as a data source is next to
> impossible.
>
> Sure, you, a human, can read it and consume the data.
>
> Try importing a simple table from a PDF and working with the data in
> something like a spreadsheet. You can't do it. The raw data is there.
> But you can't readily use it.
>
> This is why I say that a PDF is the end of the line for data.
>
> I view it as effectively impossible to take data out of a PDF and do
> anything with it without first needing to reconstitute it before I can
> use it.
I'll add this:
PDF is a decent page layout format. But trying to view the contents in
any different layout is problematic (at best).
Trying to use the result of a page layout as a data source is ...
problematic.
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