pdfcpu VS lipgloss

Slightly tangential: if you are hacking on PDFs, manually or otherwise, this is an incredibly useful tool: https://pdfcpu.io/ (not the author, just a user)

A really nice, stand-alone command line tool is pdfcpu.

https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

Check it out => https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/releases/tag/v0.6.0

I can report that the closest I've came before is with PDFMiner (https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/) for Python. The benefit of this one is that it retains styling information, so that italics and the like can be retained, at least with some post-processing (I think one might need to convert certain CSS-classes to actual or tags).

The other option I have started looking into is the PDFCPU library for Go. It is a bit more low-level than PDFMiner, but one gets out very well structured info, that seem it might be possible to post-process quite well, for one's particular use case and PDF layouts: https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu

I also now tried the Marker tool in the OT, and it seems to do a reasonable job. It did intermingle some columns though, at least in some tricky cases such as when there were a round shaped image in between the two columns. One note is that Marker doesn't seem to retain styling like italics though.

Of course, the best way would be to solve it via the API without CLI. But this doesn't seem to work. https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu/issues/122

I recommend looking at the charm libraries. Lip gloss https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss can provide the styling and bubble tea can handle the screen updates and framework https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbletea there is a premade progress bar component in bubbles library. https://github.com/charmbracelet/bubbles

I saw https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss and was wondering if there is anything equivalent in the JVM ecosystem. I couldn't find anything so I started crawling its deps tree and reimplementing to fall asleep at night.

nhooyr/websocket, shollz/pake, charmbracelet/bubbles, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/lipgloss, muesli/reflow, klauspost/pgzip and many, many more.

Off the top of my head i am thinking of charmbracelet/lipgloss but I don't know if its the best suited to my use case.

Or, quit worrying about how to fix every utility ever, and just make a nice-looking ZFS TUI with "Are you sure?" boxes and progress bars, using Lip Gloss. That kind of thinking has led to about 50 offshoots of the top utility. (Nothing wrong with that. Long may they all run!)

Predefined colors for lipgloss

Yes i've seen the centered text. Take a look at lipglossif you don't mind adding dependencies, they make the styling much more easier in my opinion.