- From: Mike Bergman <mike@mkbergman.com>
- Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 20:38:22 -0500
- To: public-lod@w3.org
Hi Adobe lurkers, Kingsley has just handed you a valuable means to keep users tied to your technologies: On 10/6/2014 8:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: > On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> >> >> On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: >>> On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> I'm not saying that it is so simple. You do have to find the metadata >> block in the PDF and then look for the /Title, /Author, ... stuff. > > But it could be simple if PDF didn't have the issues I outlined in > regards to extraction technology. Funnily enough, there's a massive > opportunity for Adobe to solve this problem, especially as they've now > ventured heavily into cloud enabling their technologies, If they provide > APIs from the cloud, this problem could become much simpler to address > in regards to productive solutions where PDFs become less of the data > silos that they are today. >> Of course, it probably makes sense for Adobe to do the work, but there is also enough known in open source about PDFs for a third party to do this as well. Good idea, K! Mike
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