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A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file

9 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 3 stories, 6 comments · first 2021-07-17 · latest 2025-02-10

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  1. …and debugging video byte streams too. EDIT: Oh it's actually reasonably simple, great use of CSS! https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/simple_...
    comment by kevmo314 · 2025-02-10 · in Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
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    Show HN: HTML visualization of a PDF file's internal structure
    story by desgeeko · 2025-02-10 · 57 comments
  3. …it. It is a work in progress and I have not developed functions for images yet, though. [1] https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax
    comment by desgeeko · 2024-08-28 · in Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
  4. …that is CLI oriented and displays a greppable summary of the structure. Here is an explanation: https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/docs/disasse...
    comment by desgeeko · 2024-08-28 · in Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
  5. …- 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…
    comment by svat · 2024-08-28 · in Show HN: IPA, a GUI for exploring inner details of PDFs
  6. …seeing the raw source, after using such things for a bit (e.g. the output HTML file generated by https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax which is very good), I'm starting to feel it's nice to look at the first few times / in some cases, but…
    comment by svat · 2023-10-03 · in Show HN: PDF Debugger – Inspect Structure of PDF Files
  7. …on.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#im... which it would appear is used to represent references: https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/tests/test_p... I wish you good luck, this file format has tripped up many, many a…
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-11-18 · in Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
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    Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
    story by desgeeko · 2022-11-17 · 121 comments
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    Show HN: Browse the internal structure of a PDF file
    story by desgeeko · 2021-07-17 · 2 comments