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Re:Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal stru... by xeon06 on Monday February 10, 2025 @09:18AM (#43000565)
Wow, I've been doing some PDF parsing at work and this is going to come in SO handy.
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Re:Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal stru... by vendiddy on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:02AM (#43001772)
Was mentioned in this thread, but I can also endorse qpdf as being a great library.

It gives you a JSON representation of the PDF data structure. What's nice is that doesn't hide the underlying format but it takes care of a lot of the low level edge cases for you.

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