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October 30, 2009 at 11:40pm
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Adobe is Bad for Open Government →

“Here at the Sunlight Foundation, we spend a lot of time with Adobe’s products— mainly trying to reverse the damage that these technologies create when government discloses information. The PDF file format, for instance, isn’t particularly easily parsed. As ubiquitous as a PDF file is, often times they’re non-parsable by software, unfindable by search engines, and unreliable if text is extracted.”

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