PDF.js
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Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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PDF.js
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DEMO - Voice to PDF - Complete PDF documents with voice commands using the Claude 3 Opus API
readPdf: used for reading the dropped file and displaying it on the screen, it uses PDF.js to load the file, get all fields and display it on the browser.
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Building W-9 Crafter
I first started building the app in the browser, using PDF.js and Download.js to take a PDF and edit it, and then download it to your computer.
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Parsing PDFs in Node.js
pdf2json is a module that transforms PDF files from binary to JSON format, using pdf.js for its core functionality. It also incorporates support for interactive form elements, enhancing its utility in processing and interpreting PDF content.
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Is it possible to port Edge's PDF Editor to other browsers or make your own custom one?
Why not PDF.js?
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How to Write a Cold Email
I'd think opening a PDF in your browser would be at the same risk-level you associate with going to any random URL. On Firefox at least, I'm pretty sure the built-in PDF viewer is simply JS parsing and rendering the PDF anyway -- nothing with elevated permissions:
https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
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Firefox 119 unleashes PDF prowess and Sync sorcery
The PDF features are actually an extension, just one built in as Firefox's default pdf viewer.
It's called pdf.js https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/
You can actually use this pdf viewer in another browser like Chrome if you'd like, there's a demo URL on there.
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PDF Chat with Node.js, OpenAI and ModelFusion
We use Mozilla's PDF.js via the pdfjs-dist NPM module to load pages from a PDF file. The loadPdfPages function reads the PDF file and extracts its content. It returns an array where each object contains the page number and the text of that page.
- Ask HN: Best toolkit to build custom pdf viewer?
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Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the EU over Teams, Office 365
The problem is that there simply wasn't a better option at the time.
Ogg Vorbis was a novelty at best, and it was the only decently widely adopted open source competitor for any of the items listed that was available at the time.
HTML5 was only just published when Chrome launched. So Flash was at that point the only option available to show a video in the browser (sure, downloading a RealPlayer file was always an option, but it was clunky, creators didn't like people being able to save stuff locally, and was also not open source). Chrome in fact arguably accelerated the process of getting web video open sourced: Google bought On2 in 2010 to get the rights to VP8 (the only decent H.264 competitor available at that point) so they could immediately open source it. The plan was in fact to remove H.264 from Chrome entirely once VP8/VP9 adoption ramped up[1], but that didn’t end up happening.
Flash was integrated into Chrome because people were going to use it anyway, and having Google distribute it at least let them both sandbox it and roll out automatic updates (a massive vector for malware at the time was ads pretending to be Flash updates, which worked because people were just that used to constant Flash security patches, most of which required a full reboot to apply; Chrome fixed both of those issues). Apple are the ones who ultimately dealt the death blow to Flash, and it was really just because Adobe could not optimize it for phone CPUs no matter what they tried (even the few Android releases of Flash that we got were practically unusable). That also further accelerated the adoption of open source HTML5 technologies.
PDF is an open source format, and has been since 2008. While I don't know if pressure from Google is what did it, that wouldn’t surprise me. Regardless, the Chrome PDF reader, PDFium, is open source[2] and Mozilla's equivalent project from 2011, PDF.js, is also open source.[3] Both of these projects replaced the distinctly closed source Adobe Reader plugin that was formerly mandatory for viewing PDFs in the browser.
Chrome is directly responsible for eliminating a lot of proprietary software from mainstream use and replacing it with high-quality open source tools. While they've caused problems in other areas of browser development that are worthy of criticism, Chrome's track record when it comes to open sourcing their tech has been very good.
[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2011/01/html-video-codec-support-i...
[2]: https://github.com/chromium/pdfium
[3]: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
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How do Fix this issue while trying to save an edited PDF? (text gets really small and is rotated)(i'm using nightly)
Firefox Nightly is an unstable test version. You should report PDF issues to this GitHub repository.
Wails
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SGSG (Svelte + Go + SQLite + gRPC) - open source application
This is basically the same tech stack of an app I’ve been planning to build, but deployed as a desktop application using Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 16 October 2023
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[Golang] Recommandation de bibliothèque d'interface utilisateur légère
Wails 2.6k
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Generate types for TS
The wails project does this when. You can check it out here https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/blob/master/v2/internal/typescriptify/typescriptify.go for inspection.
- Building Desktop Applications with Tauri, Nextjs, Firebase
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Ask HN: What is the most pleasant, uncomplicated full stack to start with?
I have built Web front-ends (React or Svelte) with Go-backend. Embed in a web-view to make it a native desktop app, or get funky and give it native chrome/menus etc. [Wails](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails) is a good candidate to start if you want to cut on boiler plate.
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Task runner like go-task/task, but in pure Go, no external DSLs
Is that what wails is doing here? (On mobile)
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Game Server Development: How do you structure game state for easy, efficient, and configurable access?
In a "local" environment, where an executable can be provided to someone with the entire game contents. In this case, the game won't use WebSockets, and will instead use a Go/JS bridge (something like Wails) to connect.
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What necessary packages or functions that Go doesn't have?
Have you seen wails? https://github.com/wailsapp/wails
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Systray is not showing icon.
You should check out https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/pull/1959
What are some alternatives?
jsPDF - Client-side JavaScript PDF generation for everyone.
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
pdfmake - Client/server side PDF printing in pure JavaScript
fyne - Cross platform GUI toolkit in Go inspired by Material Design
PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser
Lorca - Build cross-platform modern desktop apps in Go + HTML5
Papa Parse - Fast and powerful CSV (delimited text) parser that gracefully handles large files and malformed input
webview - Tiny cross-platform webview library for C/C++. Uses WebKit (GTK/Cocoa) and Edge WebView2 (Windows).
diff2html - Pretty diff to html javascript library (diff2html)
example-go-tray-gui - An example desktop system tray application that can launch HTML5 windows. Go source with a build process for Windows, Mac and Linux.
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
go-astilectron - Build cross platform GUI apps with GO and HTML/JS/CSS (powered by Electron)