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		LunaSea 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PgPDF: Pdf Type and Functions for Postgres Interesting! I wonder what the use case is compared to extracting this information in the programming language and then storing it alongside the PDF in separate table columns?

cha42 11 months ago [–]

It can be useful for improving ingestion pipeline: put your pdf collection in a temp table and then extract with pure SQL the information you want.

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