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kaitai_struct_formats
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Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
Kaitai has a repository of binary formats[1] that can be used in visualizers or to auto-generate parsers.
[1] https://formats.kaitai.io/
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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
This is tangential to your submission, but PDF is the file format I use for exercising any library that claims to be a declarative file format (ala https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#readme )
pdfsyntax
- Show HN: PDFSyntax, a Python library to inspect and transform PDF files
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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
I never knew about the J number suffix in python: https://docs.python.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 developer. It blew up on a pdf I had lying around:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: b'5.0.0' -
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pdfsyntax – A Python PDF parsing library browse the internal structure of a PDF file
- Show HN: Browse the internal structure of a PDF file
What are some alternatives?
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
pdfquery - A fast and friendly PDF scraping library.
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin
sunfish - Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code
jqjq - jq implementation of jq
djot - A light markup language
i7j-rups - RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.
mupdf - mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git