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Written by Johan van der Knijff on 2024-11-14 at 16:39

The authors of the recent "The Phantom of a PDF File" blog post argue that "octal escape sequences" in #PDF strings are a potential preservation risk.

But some quick tests with 8 different PDF tools suggest that #JHOVE is really the only tool that can't handle them!

Details in my new blog post "Escape from the phantom of the PDF" #wtfPDF 👻 :

https://www.bitsgalore.org/2024/11/14/escape-from-the-phantom-of-the-pdf

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