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Comment by ashishb

I speak from experience that this is a bad idea.

There are cases where documents contains text with letters that look the same in many font. For example, 0 and O looks identical in many fonts. So if you have a doc/xls/PDF/html then you lose information by converting it into an image.

For cases like serial numbers, not even humans can distinguish 0 vs O (or l vs I) by looking at them.

parent ashishb 1 year ago

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