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# shared/text-extract-warning

{% hint style="warning" %}
Text extraction reading ordering is not defined in the ISO PDF standard. In fact, there is no concept of sentence, paragraph, tables, or anything similar in a typical PDF file. This means each PDF vendor is left to their own design/solution and will extract text with some differences. Therefore, reading order is not guaranteed to match the order that a typical user reading the document would follow.

The reading order of a magazine, newspaper article, and an academic article are all quite different due to the lack of semantic information in a PDF and the placement/ordering of text in the document. Where different users may have different expectations of the correct reading order.
{% endhint %}


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