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queuebert 3 hours ago

Should there be a million-dollar prize for developing a way to parse and reflow the text in PDFs in real time? Reading PDFs on screens is a huge headache.

jez 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Various apps already do this, if you find yourself reading lots of PDFs on phones. For example I use PDF Expert on iOS to do this. It’s not perfect—depending on the quality of the PDF there might be weird artifacts in the reflowed text (e.g., “ff” ligatures getting mapped to the Unicode ligature character “Latin Small Ligature Ff (U+FB00)” which breaks copy/paste/search).

But for PDFs which are really hard to read on a phone otherwise, it’s really a nice investment.

actionfromafar 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think there already might be implicitly, I think you could sell that as a product.