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That’s funny I offered to do this for my tailor. He has a FoxPro app that was originally made in 1990.

I wrote not so basic CRUD application that uses HTML and vanilla javascript. I don't even minify the javascript. That website loads significantly faster than all the other websites I have made.

Sad to hear this, I watched "Triumph of the Nerds" multiple times when I was at University.

I got banned from Google Admob (or whatever it is called now) and they still send me promotional emails.

I think we did do that.

I disagree, I think if you slop out your content it will be disregarded. It seems to be pretty easy to identify now with tools like Pangram.

I don’t really understand how OCRing a PDF could be more accurate than reading the text nodes.

Another thing to consider is OCR works well for English but not so well for other languages.

Yes it’s not a safe general rule. I can do it because I first classify the statement into a document_type and then run special code for specific document_types.

I agree with you, it's not safe to have a rule saying "non-black means invisible".

I should have made it clear in the blog post, but the first thing I do when processing a PDF is I identify the document_type. Then I run special rules for that document_type.

So the "non-black means invisible" rule only applies when processing this document_type.