Kaitai Struct
borb
Our great sponsors
| Kaitai Struct | borb | |
|---|---|---|
| 44 | 66 | |
| 3,826 | 3,277 | |
| 1.5% | - | |
| 7.5 | 5.2 | |
| 11 days ago | 28 days ago | |
| Shell | Python | |
| GPL-3.0-or-later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Kaitai Struct
- Reverse-engineering an encrypted IoT protocol
-
Parsing an Undocumented File Format
- ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful.
[1]: https://kaitai.io/
-
HTTPie Desktop: cross-platform API testing client for humans
Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]
[0]. https://kaitai.io/
-
Hacking the LG Monitor's EDID
An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]
EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...
By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.
[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs
[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...
-
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Kaitai Struct might be a good choice for that: https://kaitai.io/
-
Ingesting, parsing and making sense of device log data
For binary log format, there's the excellent Kaitai Struct frameworks, that make it very easy to generate parsers from a declarative schema
-
What is this tool? More info in comments
kaitai
-
GNU poke: The extensible editor for structured binary data
* Kaitai Struct - https://kaitai.io/
-
Please Review My Metalanguage
Have you seen this? https://kaitai.io/
(Disclaimer: I've never needed or used it, but stumbled upon it a while back and just filed it away for future reference)
-
What projects are you working on or planning to do this year?
Speaking of reading binary data, later I found Kaitai Struct. You can write file format in YAML, then it would transpile it to different programming languages. Highly recommend it if all you need is to read (it can not serialize data back to binary). There's even a web IDE to play with files, which is quite fun.
borb
-
Generating PDF from some sort of template (jinja2) with headers, footers, images, not just a printed HTML document.
Have you looked at borb? I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you need I found it useful when doing something similar to you
-
looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's
You might take a look at borb
-
fpdf2.5.2 : SVG support and comparison with borb
I will also perform a quick comparison with the borb library.
-
borb, the pure Python PDF library
Get borb from source on GitHub, or download using PyPi.
- borb v2.0.16
-
Hacker News top posts: Sep 18, 2021
Borb – A Python library to read, write, and edit PDF files\ (12 comments)
-
Read, write, and edit PDF files with borb, a pure Python library
Confusingly, while the README says AGPL/commercial, the LICENSE file (https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/LICENSE) says it's GPL.
Page numbers are part of the PageInfo object within a PDF, but it looks like currently this is generated naively [0], so I don't think multiple numbering schemes are currently supported by this library.
[0] https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/borb/pd...
The README in the GitHub repo for borb is a bit of a better explainer than this landing page (especially for Python programmers).
https://github.com/jorisschellekens/borb/blob/master/README....
What are some alternatives?
ReportLab
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
Protobuf - Protocol Buffers - Google's data interchange format
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
pdf2docx - Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
pikepdf - A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
fpdf2 - Simple PDF generation for Python
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.