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Comment by egnehots

I don't think so, pdf.js is able to render a pdf content.

Which is different from extracting "text". Text in PDF can be encoded in many ways, in an actual image, in shapes (think, segments, quadratic bezier curves...), or in an XML format (really easy to process).

PDF viewers are able to render text, like a printer would work, processing command to show pixels on the screen at the end.

But often, paragraph, text layout, columns, tables are lost in the process. Even though, you see them, so close yet so far. That is why AI is quite strong at this task.

parent egnehots 1 year ago

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