mupdf vs pdfsyntax

mupdf

mupdf mirror (by ArtifexSoftware)

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pdfsyntax

A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file (by desgeeko)

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mupdf		pdfsyntax
	Project
2	Mentions	8
1,023	Stars	420
4.7%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	8.3
4 days ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
C	Language	Python
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0	License	MIT License

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mupdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of mupdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-09.

View images when SSH
4 projects | /r/neovim | 9 May 2023

Using x11, you can view images nicely with MuPDF. https://www.mupdf.com
seeking options: data + template = PDF output (print ready)
2 projects | /r/pdf | 12 Feb 2023

This is probably a bit more low level than you’re looking for, but MuPDF is insanely powerful. They have a Story API that can generate docs from HTML / CSS templates: https://github.com/ArtifexSoftware/mupdf/blob/master/docs/examples/storytest.js

pdfsyntax

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfsyntax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-18.

Show HN: PDFSyntax, a Python library to inspect and transform PDF files
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jan 2024
Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 19 Nov 2022

1 project | /r/hackernews | 19 Nov 2022

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 17 Nov 2022

17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022
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'
```
This Week In Python
5 projects | dev.to | 18 Nov 2022

pdfsyntax – A Python PDF parsing library browse the internal structure of a PDF file
Show HN: Browse the internal structure of a PDF file
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing mupdf and pdfsyntax you can also consider the following projects:

Apache PDFBox - Mirror of Apache PDFBox

PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

sioyek-website

pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

vim-graphical-preview - Small plugin for Vim to display graphics with SIXEL characters

sunfish - Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code

zathura - 🧚‍♂️ Soothing pastel theme for Zathura

djot - A light markup language

okular - KDE document viewer

mupdf - mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git

Simple-Voice-Recorder - An easy way of recording any discussion or sounds without ads or internet access

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.