Conversations about PDF text extraction

This topic collects public chats about getting text out of PDF files and checking whether that extraction actually worked. The questions here tend to be practical: why an upload fails when a PDF's text cannot be read, what to do when the file arrives as images rather than selectable text, and how to confirm that a document came through complete.

The conversations also cover how to judge what was received, such as spotting the last visible heading or noticing missing subsections, along with the limits of working from extracted text alone. They are useful for anyone who needs to diagnose extraction problems and compare ways of preparing a PDF so its contents can be read.

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