Serialization is hard.

Claude is there to support me...

@tallison I'm sure Fedi can also cheer you up, we have quality memes!

I'm starting to think that Tika is a serialization library that happens to enable parsing of PDFs...

When this is done...

#lesson-learned: even if you don't think you need round-tripability. You do or you will or your design will be better for it.