alt Hacker News> Printed documents - Use the original, which is digital.
> Images - Use the original, which is digital.
> horribly inaccessible pdfs - Use the original, which has real text in the PDF
> horribly inaccessible websites - All text on any web site is digital. Nobody uses OCR on a website.
A massive paper producer like the government shouldn't adopt their type setting to people who are using technology wrongly.
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contact9879 • last Thursday at 5:18 AM
it's easier to mandate font than to excise all processes within the fed bureaucracy that result in these.
images being digital have no bearing on OCR ability
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an example from today (pdf warning): https://www.ntsb.gov/news/Documents/National%20Defense%20Aut...