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		TZubiri 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig In my experience with parsing PDFs, speed has never been an issue, it has always been a matter of quality.

DetroitThrow 4 months ago [–]

I tried a small PDF and got a memory error. It's definitely much faster than MuPDF on that file.

littlestymaar 4 months ago | [–]

“The fastest PDF extractor is the one that crashes at the beginning of the file” or something.

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