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mattigames on May 13, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem

Because then we would have 2 formats: "pdfs generated by Excel" and "real pdfs" with the same extension and that would be it's own can of worms for Microsoft's and for everyone else.

chaps on May 14, 2025 [–]

Hah, no. We would be going from 200,000 formats to 200,001 formats. Begone, shallow xkcd references!

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