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		normie3000 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem > PDF files use only the printable subset of the ASCII character set to describe documents even those with images and special characters Great, so PDF source code is easily printable?

gpvos 9 months ago [–]

Except most are compressed or contain binary streams. You can transform any PDF into an equivalent ASCII PDF though, e.g. using qpdf.

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