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The problem nobody talks about Copy text from an academic PDF. Paste it. Get $%&@#^*~. That's not a bug. It's intentional — called font obfuscation. Publishers and teachers deliberately break Unicode mappings so copy-paste returns garbage, while the PDF looks visually perfect. No clean open-source tool existed to fix this. So I built one. What VeilPDF does recover — detects broken ToUnicode tables, reconstructs text, falls back to OCR automatically. protect — lets YOU obfuscate your own PDFs,...