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Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)
Unfortunately, PDFs are right buggers to work with and there often isn't an "easy to find value" for anything
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You're absolutely right, PDFs can be incredibly tricky. That lack of a consistent, easily parsable structure for arbitrary data is the core challenge.
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I mean easy in the PDF sense. I have folders full of randomString.pdf and name(15).pdf but those that share a folder all have the same layout.
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