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Re:Show HN: PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project by exim on Sunday May 13, 2012 @02:14AM (#3966205)
This is great of course, but I'd be more happy to see the actual PDF renderer with a more permissive license than GPL.
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Re:Show HN: PDF parsing in Racket, my weekend project by gcr on Tuesday May 15, 2012 @09:24AM (#3976410)
I would too, but

- To my knowledge, there are no sane C-based PDF renderers with a permissive BSD-like license

- Poppler renders to Cairo --- a _huge_ win because I don't actually have to do anything to convert Cairo surfaces to Racket's native drawing type

- I don't know / don't have the time to implement my own PDF reader/parser from scratch.

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