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So you want to parse a PDF?
have an appetite for tilting at windmills. Let's say you love pain.
In addition files encountered in the wild lacked a linebreak before the offset declaration, or had a typo, e.g. startref. Beyond the xref pointer issues seen in the sample set, the table structure itself can be malformed in unexpected ways. This serves as a brief survey of the challenges of parsing a single part of the PDF specification (22 pages out of 1,300 total from version 1.7).
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