Re: [NTG-pdftex] Docs for xpdf libraries or poppler?

"Martin Schröder" writes:

2007/10/11, David Kastrup :

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Now PDFTeX obviously _has_ been able to make sense of the libraries. What source of information has been used for this? Key point

General knowledge of how a pdf library works and of PDF. :-)

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I have to read some PDF files, process them at some rather shallow object level, and write out the results.

Have a look at pdftk + lua and iText.

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