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> but that’s completely optional and only serves as auxiliary metadata, it’s not at the core of the PDF format.

This is what I kind of suspected but, as I said in my original comment, I'm not an expert and for the PDFs I'm reading I didn't need to delve further because that metadata simply isn't in there (although, boy do I wish it was) so I needed to use a different approach. As soon as I realised what I had was purely presentation I knew it was going to be a bit grim.



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