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This is great, I just want to highlight out how nuts it is that we have spun up whole industries around extracting text that was typically printed from a computer, back into a computer.

There should be laws that mandates that financial information be provided in a sensible format: even Office Open XML would be better than this insanity. Then we can redirect all this wasted effort into digging ditches and filling them back in again.




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