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krick on Feb 26, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to t...

This is interesting. I never considered this one. How is it inferior to PDF, so that it is so much less widely spread?

Mikhail_Edoshin on Feb 27, 2017 [–]

It's not as versatile (no forms, for example), but layout- and prepress-wise it seems to be as good as PDF (with the benefit that it retains the structure).

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