Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

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Post by smhmd » Sun, May 31, 2020, 3:18 AM UTC

I tried it with a relatively complex pdf and it blew my mind.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

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Post by echan00 » Sun, May 31, 2020, 3:37 AM UTC

dellinspiron wrote: post #4

mhasbini wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it with a bit complex pdf structure and it worked like charm +1. Would love to learn more about the underlying techniques/tech.

It just calls https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX on the server.

What calls what?

Re: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

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Post by saradhi » Sun, May 31, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

shashanoid wrote: post #2

Hi, I bootstrapped this simple website. Let me know what you think :)

What's up with requirements. That's a lot and I don't see all being used. did you line them for new features?

Re: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

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Post by shashanoid » Sun, May 31, 2020, 4:06 AM UTC

mhasbini wrote: post #3

shashanoid wrote: post #2

Hi, I bootstrapped this simple website. Let me know what you think :)

I tried it with a bit complex pdf structure and it worked like charm +1. Would love to learn more about the underlying techniques/tech.

Hey, there's nothing complex going on. I'm using a tool to convert pdf to html, and it does a phenomenal job.

Re: Show HN: I made a simple PDF text editor

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Post by miccah » Sun, May 31, 2020, 4:06 AM UTC

hombre_fatal wrote: post #5

mhasbini wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it with a bit complex pdf structure and it worked like charm +1. Would love to learn more about the underlying techniques/tech.

https://github.com/shashanoid/Simpdf/blob/1557bf838a8debeee1... Btw, arbitrary code execution vuln here, OP.

I'm investigating the same. The upload endpoint uses secure_filename to get the filename used in that func. I'm not familiar with it, but the docs say it could return an empty string.