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Comment by protomikron

I think there is some kind of misunderstanding. Sure, if you get somehow structured, machine-generated PDFs parsing them might be feasible.

But what about the "scanned" document part? How do you handle that? Your PDF rendering engine probably just says: image at pos x,y with size height,width.

So as parent says you have to OCR/AI that photo anyway and it seems that's also a feasible approach for "real" pdfs.

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