On 12/2/19 9:06 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
In my opinion, PDFs are the last place that computer usable data goes.
Because getting anything out of a PDF as a data source is next to
impossible.
Sure, you, a human, can read it and consume the data.
Try importing a simple table from a PDF and working with the data in
something like a spreadsheet. You can't do it. The raw data is there.
But you can't readily use it.
This is why I say that a PDF is the end of the line for data.
I view it as effectively impossible to take data out of a PDF and do
anything with it without first needing to reconstitute it before I can
use it.
I'll add this:
PDF is a decent page layout format. But trying to view the contents in
any different layout is problematic (at best).
Trying to use the result of a page layout as a data source is ...
problematic.
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