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I can't believe the DTP studios would be in the habit of regularly deleting such files.
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Depends on the contract with the publisher. If it states "create the PDF, send it to us then delete the original file (i.e. 'and don't you ever consider distributing it ...')", it is deleted. And lost.
And in all my years the conversion of a PDF to a format I could actually work with always was tedious manual labor. No automated process ever substitues a final check of the manuscript by someone actually looking at it.
I've been working years in search engine business. And I've experienced so many programmers proud of their search algorithms. I was responsible for QA. To check the search results as a user would see them. Guess who found the errors.