PDF is still the hardest file format to work with. Here's why.

After months wrestling with PDF, a developer documents why this century-old format remains a nightmare: poorly standardized specs, infinite encoding variations, unstructured text, and contradictory metadata.

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No unified parser solves all cases; every PDF variant requires specific hacks.

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