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		majora2007 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PDF to Text, a challenging problem Why can't this be done with epub? Single file, all files are packed within the zip, no javascript needed but can be included. Allows for markup and forms, just like pdf.

currency 9 months ago [–]

EPub is, like html, reformattable by the reader, so documents aren't fixed in the way PDFs are.

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