It can also use fonts which map glyphs via characters which do not represent the...

		hnick 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem It can also use fonts which map glyphs via characters which do not represent the final visual item e.g. "PDF" could be "1#F" and you only really know what it looks like by rendering then viewing/OCR. A nice file won't, but sometimes the best work is in not dealing with nice things.

See this is why we can't have nice things.