Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
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Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
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Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#3This is cool!
Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here:
- https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups (java -jar ~/Downloads/itext-rups-7.2.5.jar)
- https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax (python3 -m pdfsyntax inspect foo.pdf > output.html)
- https://github.com/trailofbits/polyfile (polyfile --html output.html foo.pdf)
- https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/PDFViewer/ = https://www.reportmill.com/snaptea/PDFViewer/pviewer.html (drag PDF onto it)
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfinspector/ (an "example" of https://superficial.sourceforge.net/)
- https://www.o2sol.com/pdfxplorer/overview.htm
More?
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#4Does anyone have any recommendations for a good tool that allows both programmatic inspection and modification of PDF primitives. For example, let's say someone wants to iterate through every embedded image in a PDF and apply some form of signal processing to the images in-place, then re-save the PDF?
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#5For exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2].
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#6For exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2]. [1] https://itextpdf.com/products/rups [2] https://flathub.org/apps/com.itextpdf.RUPS
Thanks, it seems a great product too :) Do you have any particular feature that you share that product for?
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#7Does anyone have any recommendations for a good tool that allows both programmatic inspection and modification of PDF primitives. For example, let's say someone wants to iterate through every embedded image in a PDF and apply some form of signal processing to the images in-place, then re-save the PDF?
I'd suggest you to code something along popular libraries for PDF manipulation. I've used pdf-rs for the tool.
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#8This is cool! Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here: - https://pdf.hyzyla.dev/ - https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups (java -jar ~/Downloads/itext-rups-7.2.5.jar) - https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax (python3 -m pdfsyntax inspect foo.pdf > output.html) - https://github.com/trailofbits/polyfile (polyfile --…
The venerable PDFedit[1] more or less forces you to confront the internal structure of the PDF file as well.
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#9This is cool! Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here: - https://pdf.hyzyla.dev/ - https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups (java -jar ~/Downloads/itext-rups-7.2.5.jar) - https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax (python3 -m pdfsyntax inspect foo.pdf > output.html) - https://github.com/trailofbits/polyfile (polyfile --…
Thanks for the list, the idea behind my tool was to try to code something that might fit an analyst that would take a fast look at the PDF. I'm also trying to figure out some fast heuristics to mark/highlight some peculiar stuff on the file itself.
Now regarding the tools you mentioned, I haven't checked out all of them, but part of them are interesting (and more mature, speaking of testing and compatibility). However some (at least the ones I was trying) are very basic, and they don't allow the "Save object as.." or uncompress it. I like the feature of displaying the PDF for preview :)
Re: Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
#10Does anyone have any recommendations for a good tool that allows both programmatic inspection and modification of PDF primitives. For example, let's say someone wants to iterate through every embedded image in a PDF and apply some form of signal processing to the images in-place, then re-save the PDF?
I’ve used pikepdf[1] for text processing before. To use it for the task you outline, you’ll probably need to thoroughly investigate how bitmaps can be represented in PDFs. (Or maybe not, if you only need to deal with a known finite set of PDFs or PDF producers.)