unipdf VS pdfcpu

But how do we elevate our interaction with these files? How do we make annotations, edits, and collaboration more seamless? Here's where the Golang PDF Library swoops in like a superhero for your PDF woes.

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UniDoc is the star of the show here. It provides an intuitive API that makes working with templates a breeze. Have existing templates you want to modify? UniDoc has got you covered! You can easily customize templates to suit your specific needs. 💪✏️

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I'm not the person you asked, but what about: https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf

last unipdf commit that was under the AGPL: https://github.com/unidoc/unipdf/tree/c7febe5a81d9beb6362e547260d010de075e2730

If you are ok paying for it unidoc is really good. https://unidoc.io/

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