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Hi HN! This is a pet project that is still a little bit rough around the edges, but I would love to hear some feedback. I write this code by hand, out of love for Markdown and for …

Thank you very much!

Correct, PDFSyntax implements everything at the lowest level. You can ignore the HTML visualization and use it as an API to access PDF objects. Why? Because I started a very small …

Yes, I value simplicity and the interactivity offered by basic HTML and CSS is sufficient for my use case :)

Thanks for noticing! You're right, I will fix that very soon.

Hi, I've just finished a rebuild of this function and added a lot of new features: info, page index, minimap, inverted index,... I think it may be useful for inspection, debugging …

My tool (PDFSyntax[1], mentioned in this thread) is a Python library that is able to both inspect and transform PDF files. Depending on your transformation use case, you may write …

I am the author of PDFSyntax, thanks for mentioning it! The HTML output is like a pretty print where you can read view objects and follow links to other objects. Since I have added…

Hi HN, my pet project is making good progress. I would appreciate some feedback! Thanks

If you want to continue this journey and learn more about PDF, you can read the anatomy of a file I documented recently: https://pdfsyntax.dev/introduction_pdf_syntax.html

Hi HN! This is my pet project, written from scratch because there is so much to discover and learn in the process. The focus is on simplicity and incremental updates. Progress is s…

When you develop an application reading or writing PDF files, it may be useful to inspect the content of a file in order to understand what is inside and how objects are linked. Es…