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I'm one of the maintainers of OpenPDF. Please give it a try and post your feedback. Also, if you are using iText 1.2.x, it's time to update to OpenPDF, which should be compatible. https://github.com/librepdf/openpdf
Pdf so badly needs a standard open source reference implementation. the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment... something in C, or anything that compiles through LLVM would probably be a better choice i think.
There's already plenty of open source implementations of PDF parsing: Ghostscript, MuPDF, XPDF, Poppler, Pdfium, just to name the first few that come to mind.
I'm one of the maintainers of OpenPDF. Please give it a try and post your feedback. Also, if you are using iText 1.2.x, it's time to update to OpenPDF, which should be compatible. https://github.com/librepdf/openpdf
Is there a version of PDFtk based on OpenPDF? PDFtk's original GCJ-compiled iText isn't well supported any more.
Pdf so badly needs a standard open source reference implementation. the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment... something in C, or anything that compiles through LLVM would probably be a better choice i think.
Isn't one of the advantages of Java exactly being multi-platform?
Pdf so badly needs a standard open source reference implementation. the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment... something in C, or anything that compiles through LLVM would probably be a better choice i think.
the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment. Isn't one of the advantages of Java exactly being multi-platform?
You target the JVM. So Java libraries are awkward to call from e.g. C++ or Python.
I'm one of the maintainers of OpenPDF. Please give it a try and post your feedback. Also, if you are using iText 1.2.x, it's time to update to OpenPDF, which should be compatible. https://github.com/librepdf/openpdf
New Pure JavasScript low-level implementation to create and edit PDF files: https://github.com/Hopding/pdf-lib
PDF.js seems too slow for my purposes, though I haven't tested very thoroughly yet. I'm hoping with wasm Skia now available, there might be some other options coming.
Pdf so badly needs a standard open source reference implementation. the problem with java is that it isn’t easy to reuse in other programming environment... something in C, or anything that compiles through LLVM would probably be a better choice i think.
Google's PDFium which is used in Android and ChromeOS is fast becoming the reference implementation to target: https://opensource.google.com/projects/pdfium