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• Copyright Compendium
  https://compendium.adhocteam.us/
• Commonwealth Drafting Manual
  https://aih.github.io/commonwealth-leg-drafting-manual/about.html
• Statutes at Large
  https://statutes.linkedlegislation.org/

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1. PDF to Web: Freedom for PDFs. Ari Hershowitz, DreamProIT. Fantastic Futures 2026.
2. The Copyright Compendium is published as a 1,396-page, 23.6 MB PDF.
3. compendium.adhocteam.us shows the same text as a website, converted from the PDF with an LLM.
4. Each chapter has a sidebar of its sections and a stable URL.
5. Citations in the text are links, such as 17 U.S.C. § 701.
6. Search covers all 24 chapters. Results link to the matching section.
7. The Commonwealth Legislative Drafting Manual is a 189-page PDF.
8. On the web, chapters and sections are navigable and each has its own page.
9. The Statutes at Large are published on GovInfo as scanned volumes.
10. statutes.linkedlegislation.org serves each law at the section level. The box takes a citation.
11. A page citation such as 110 Stat. 4196 opens the text printed on that page.
12. Section 814 of Public Law 104-333, with links to the US Code sections it is classified to.
13. Keyword search runs across the loaded volumes.
14. PDF to Web: navigation, search, performance and accessibility.