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Sean, you're not the only one struggling with PDFs...

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    ArsTechnica: Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

    As one example to illustrate the problem further, Sunlight Labs recently had to write custom software to parse a 1,018 page healthcare reform bill that was provided to the public only in PDF format. Without this parsing, any analysis of the text would need to be done by hand.

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      ArsTechnica: Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

      As one example to illustrate the problem further, Sunlight Labs recently had to write custom software to parse a 1,018 page healthcare reform bill that was provided to the public only in PDF format. Without this parsing, any analysis of the text would need to be done by hand.

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      RichardM1
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      So PDF are very 'transparent'...

      Silver member by constant and unflinching longevity.

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        ArsTechnica: Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

        As one example to illustrate the problem further, Sunlight Labs recently had to write custom software to parse a 1,018 page healthcare reform bill that was provided to the public only in PDF format. Without this parsing, any analysis of the text would need to be done by hand.

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        Without this parsing, any analysis of the text would need to be done by hand.

        By hand? Heaven forbid ;) Did Sunlight Labs charge for that? I wonder what it would cost ...

        Thanks, Sean Ewington The Code Project

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          ArsTechnica: Adobe pushes Flash and PDF for open government, misses irony

          As one example to illustrate the problem further, Sunlight Labs recently had to write custom software to parse a 1,018 page healthcare reform bill that was provided to the public only in PDF format. Without this parsing, any analysis of the text would need to be done by hand.

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          Be afraid, very afraid.

          Charlie Gilley You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house. "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783

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