Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox

Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox by tmaly on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:00AM (#20505786)

I just used Chrome headless to render several thousand pdfs last week and I saw no issues in version 73

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Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox by mkl on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @07:18AM (#20505849)

Did you have a reason to not use PDFium directly?

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Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox by penagwin on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @10:11AM (#20506845)

Likely part of a web scrapping project that may require navigation or other browser things to get to. Or they are trying to avoid detection with a more real browser (you have to change some stuff first).

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Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox by Dowwie on Tuesday July 23, 2019 @05:46PM (#20510508)

Can you recommend any resources for getting started with pdfium?

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Re:Prototype: Puppeteer for Firefox by mkl on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:40AM (#20512616)

Sorry I'm in that position myself. A couple of years ago I compiled it without too much difficulty, and the included example I tried out rendered a page to a .png. Doing that for that for thousands of PDFs would just take a loop (or find -exec) if you have the files locally.

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