On Wed, 30 Jul 2025 12:58:48 -0000 (UTC) Greg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2025-07-29, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 2025-07-28, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > The problem has become *MOOT*. > > >> No, it hasn't, and that's not what moot means. > > > > See the 2nd definition. > > I did. Why would extracting information from, or converting a PDF to a > spreadsheet format, suddenly be subject to debate, or of no practical > importance, just because Owlett in his particular case > led us on yet another wild goose chase? > That specific task is fairly difficult to generalise, as I'm sure you know that a PDF can contain practically anything, from a single graphic up to a totally alien blob along with its proprietary renderer, the way Windows Metafiles could. It is necessary to examine a particular PDF to determine whether anything can be extracted from it other than by OCR. -- Joe
