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The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 3 comments · first 2026-02-24 · latest 2026-10-26

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  1. > https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide which this project builds on completely misses https://github.com/fschutt/printpdf which was already developed with tons of fixes over years (both with and without AI). MIT license and also builds…
    comment by tchalla · 2026-10-26 · in PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
  2. Why do people try to vibecode PDF engines that already exist in Rust? https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide which this project builds on completely misses https://github.com/fschutt/printpdf which was already developed with tons of fixes…
    comment by fschuett · 2026-10-26 · in PaperPilot – Zero-Cloud, Pure-Rust PDF Engine with WASM and MCP
  3. …PDF creation from Markdown/HTML, form filling, and OCR (PaddleOCR via ONNX Runtime). GitHub: https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide Docs: https://oxide.fyi I would love to hear what you think—especially if you throw it at PDFs that other…
    comment by yfedoseev · 2026-02-24 · in PDF Oxide – Fast PDF library in Rust with Python bindings – 0.8ms,100% pass rate