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Fast PDF generation and compression. Deals with millions of pages daily.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2021-11-27 · latest 2026-02-16

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  1. https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools Though note that this uses j2k by default and jpegoptim for JPEGs. For pages that are mostly just images (e.g. color comics) I prefer to use cjpegli on each page and img2pdf to combine…
    comment by aidenn0 · 2026-02-16 · in DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
  2. …maybe?) - mask (indicating whether foreground or background should be shown at this point) https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
    comment by rahimnathwani · 2026-02-15 · in DjVu and its connection to Deep Learning (2023)
  3. The internet archive generates MRC pdfs and have open-sourced their tooling: https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
    comment by aidenn0 · 2025-02-14 · in OCR4all
  4. …Would you mind filing a bug here with your findings, so that we can figure out what is going on? https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools We (archive.org) tested the software extensively with the various readers, and we haven't…
    comment by merlijnwajer · 2023-05-15 · in How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)
  5. …should be PDF/A compliant. It might have to do with the vulnerabilities behind JBIG2 compression. https://github.com/internetarchive/archive-pdf-tools
    comment by Solvate8441 · 2023-05-15 · in How to Entertain with Your Pocket Calculator (1975)