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Page count is the wrong unit for estimating a PDF-to-text job

"How many pages?" is the first question anyone asks about turning a pile of PDFs into text, and it's the number that ends up in the estimate.

  • Page count is poor predictor of edits needed in PDF-to-text conversion
  • Spot types include fixes, manual review, and rerun through OCR
  • Script fixes 85% of issues, human needed for remaining spots

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