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		maxxxxx on Feb 26, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to t... I don't even want to know :)

grkvlt on Feb 27, 2017 [–]

Oh, you really do! The format for COM object based documents like XLS and DOC is actually a FAT filesystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_File_Binary_Format

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