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Shouldn’t it be possible since forever to put machine readable source information into PDF metadata. It’s more a problem of the tools and programs generating th
by jexp 3mo ago
Shouldn’t it be possible since forever to put machine readable source information into PDF metadata. It’s more a problem of the tools and programs generating the PDFs.
We spend millions turning structured information into PDFs and billions to extract the same data from a printer rendering language
- neonmagenta 3mo agoExactly. But we have no real coordination or uniform application in how we're creating PDFs across all these programs so we always end up with a fun mix of what will and wont be static, scalable, searchable
- vjvjvjvjghv 3mo agoExactly. It’s pretty insane that we have converged on storing documents as PDF. And it looks like no work is done on making PDF files machine readable.
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- pg_bot 3mo agoYes this is already possible. You can look up the ZUGFeRD standard for an example of how this is done for German invoices.
- pg_bot 3mo agoSee also: https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-2-0-application-note-002-associated-files/ https://pdfa.org/resource/pdf-2-0-application-note-002-assoc...