Awesome
pdf-toolbox
A collection of tools for processing PDF files
Features
- Written in Haskell
- Parsing on demand. You don't need to parse or load into memory the entire PDF file just to extract one image
- Different levels of abstraction. You can inspect high level (catalog, page tree, pages) or low level (xref, trailer, object) structure of PDF file. You can even switch between levels of details on the fly.
- Extremely fast and memory efficient when you need to inspect only part of the document
- Resonably fast and memory efficient in general case
- Text extraction with exact glyph positions It can be used e.g. to implement text selection and copying in pdf viewer
- Full support of xref streams and object streams
- Supports editing of PDF files (incremental updates)
- Basic support for PDF file generating
- Encrypted PDF documents are partially supported
Still in TODO list
- Linearized PDF files
- Higher level API for incremental updates and PDF generating
Examples
(Also see examples
and viewer
directories)
Inspect high level structure:
import Control.Monad
import Pdf.Document
main =
withPdfFile "input.pdf" $ \pdf -> do
encrypted <- isEncrypted pdf
when encrypted $ do
ok <- setUserPassword pdf defaultUserPassword
unless ok $
fail "need password"
doc <- document pdf
catalog <- documentCatalog doc
rootNode <- catalogPageNode catalog
count <- pageNodeNKids rootNode
print count
-- the first page of the document
page <- pageNodePageByNum rootNode 0
-- extract text
txt <- pageExtractText page
print txt
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