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		person_of_color on Sept 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's so hard about PDF text extraction? The best method is probably to render the PDF and use OCR.

liability on Sept 14, 2020 [–]

Unfortunately that's obnoxiously inefficient if you're trying to run it through text-to-speech in real time.

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