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For some reason, this page embeds the PDF as an iframe. The actual PDF is at https://19971168.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/199711...
It's so they can add their help / advertising at the bottom right of the screen.
I'm so impressed by the design of this PDF file. It's amazing that they put in so much effort to design what comes down to just an informational article.
Here’s a link that works: https://www.sensible.so/blog/history-of-the-pdf
You can't a free tool that offers features close to Adobe Acrobat, there is none. You have to download multiple tools that each offers their own feature close to Acrobat.
Statisticians beware: It‘s about the Portable Document Format.
So, reading the article is a bit weird. It's clear there's an anti-PDF bias from the start, with the implicit assumption that everybody hates reading PDF files. Actually, I don't because I get to read a well formatted document. They even say that it should only be used as a format for things to be printed, never as a document for people to read on a computer... and yet this is clearly meant to be read once on a scree…
Also you haven't solved another huge fail of the most basic digital workflow - copy&paste - by pointing at the motivation of the author since "except spaces" ruin it for everyone, not just professional data extractors
>In 2020, Nielsen made the case again, writing, “After 20 years of watching users perform similar tasks on a variety of sites that use either PDFs or regular web pages, one thing remains certain: PDFs degrade the user experience.” Good luck saving a HTML version of any modern web page and being able to read it in twenty or thirty years time. HTML just wasn't designed for that.
So, reading the article is a bit weird. It's clear there's an anti-PDF bias from the start, with the implicit assumption that everybody hates reading PDF files. Actually, I don't because I get to read a well formatted document. They even say that it should only be used as a format for things to be printed, never as a document for people to read on a computer... and yet this is clearly meant to be read once on a scree…
Mostly, the page description language (inside PDFs) says "move to point (x, y) and write text foo " or "move to point (x, y) and draw glyph bar ". The reason that many PDFs produce garbage when extracting text is because the underlying document doesn't include fonts, every letter is a drawn glyph. This is most common in older (1990s) pdfs generated on UNIX systems. Since the page description language is saying "write…