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i disagree. While i agree, that PDFs are there and they will stay for a long time. The problem can be easily solved by journals. They make you use of their own LaTeX templates. It would be very easy to just force the submitters to add the LaTeX together with the pdf. Sometimes the easy solution is too obvious, i guess

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Well, basically everything on the arXiv has the .tex available, but that doesn't seem to make the problem much better. The problem isn't getting raw access to the text. It's possible to copy-past from PDF's with labor too, or to examine the inside of it (which is its own typesetting system, like .tex). The problem is that this data is very difficult to parse.

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