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Practical, specific writing on why PDFs behave the way they do and how to get clean text out of them, for resumes, research, AI pipelines, and ebooks.
20 August 2026 · 7 min read
A technical look at how PDF character encoding, glyph positioning, and font subsetting combine to make manual copy-pasting an unreliable way to get text out of a document.
Read the article10 August 2026 · 6 min read
How to move a long PDF manuscript into an ebook-ready format without dragging along page numbers, running heads, and mid-sentence line breaks.
Read the article2 August 2026 · 6 min read
Hyphen splits and hard line breaks quietly degrade tokenization and retrieval quality. Here is why data cleaning is a real preprocessing step, not an afterthought.
Read the article22 July 2026 · 7 min read
A breakdown of how ATS parsers actually read a resume, why multi-column layouts fail, and how cleaning your extracted text catches problems before a recruiter ever sees them.
Read the article10 July 2026 · 6 min read
Why broken line breaks and hyphen splits can distort similarity scores in academic document checkers, and how to clean a paper's extracted text before submission.
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