Plain text and PDF are built on opposite assumptions: one holds characters and nothing else, the other holds a picture of a printed page. These guides cover what happens in between — where the conversion is lossless, where it is not, and what to do when a document will not behave.
Editing text in a PDF depends on what kind of PDF you have. How to tell in ten seconds, then four routes — in-place editors, annotation, rebuilding from the text, and OCR for scans — with the traps in each.
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