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| pikepdf | entr | |
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| 4 | 5 | |
| 2,026 | 591 | |
| 2.1% | 1.0% | |
| 9.5 | 5.6 | |
| 1 day ago | 7 months ago | |
| Python | C | |
| Mozilla Public License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pikepdf
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This Week in Python
pikepdf – A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by qpdf
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Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
Not off the shelf but here are some tools. I have no experience with them.
Wolf binarization - I think it makes the text more clear before OCR.
https://github.com/chriswolfvision/local_adaptive_binarizati...
This thing OCRs the pdf using Tesseract OCR
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/
Two other pdf tools
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf
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Show HN: Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk
i recently transitioned a large PDF processing pipeline[1] away from PyPDF3 to use the pikepdf[2] library instead. pikepdf is based on the C++ `qpdf` library, and this switch has cut the necessary special-case manual checking + error handling in half compared to pypdf for these sorts of tasks.
[1]: i'm helping out with the CV Open Access archive, https://openaccess.thecvf.com/menu. broadly, our pipeline needs to ingest tons of author-provided PDFs of varying quality and output a canonical PDF with corrected page numbers, proper metadata, and a banner stamped on the first page. it's a lot of work, and it's not uncommon for pypdf to simply fail for slightly invalid input or give garbled results. this isn't optimal since we can't review 2,000 papers per conference release lol. pypdf has been nice, but pikepdf has handled everything i've thrown at it.
[2] https://pikepdf.readthedocs.io
- a collection of pdf-files (copy of a book ) in disorder: solfing wiht pikepdf
entr
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how to run command in vim terminal automatically?
You could look into entr.
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Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
Not sure what generated interest in this.
This was a project I did for my personal use case. But I haven't been using it since years. I'd recommend [entr](https://github.com/clibs/entr) for the use case watchman was to serve.
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How to automatically run a command when directory updates?
entr is what I usually reach for when I want to monitor a directory or a list of files and then perform some action on them when changes occur
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Show HN: Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk
I've tested it against a 800 page compilation and didn't face any issues : https://github.com/captn3m0/pdp-book
It's obviously not fast enough for live-recompilations with very large projects, but for smaller projects I've run it against entr[0], and it was pretty good.
[0]: https://github.com/clibs/entr
What are some alternatives?
fpdf2 - Simple PDF generation for Python
watchexec - Executes commands in response to file modifications
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
watchman - Watches files and records, or triggers actions, when they change.
PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2]
fswatch - A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
reflex - Run a command when files change
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
WatchMod - Watch for modifications to trigger actions. Useful for compiling Go templates, Sass, Typescript, and more.
malicious-pdf - 💀 Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh
watchdog - Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.