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Comment by felipefar

Nice job! I've been wanting to write a PDF parser for learning purposes, but have been put off by the quantity of files that open source PDF parsers have on their repos and the different tech that they need (image formats, compression formats, etc.). I'll probably settle for a reasonable ratio between PDFs supported/learning extracted from the project, so it's useful knowing that PDFs with JS are not very widely used.

Also, I'm the developer of a reference management software, and have naturally been thinking about what it'd take to save in the PDF file metadata fields that are generally useful for advanced readers and academics: original publication dates, ISBNs, DOIs, edition, publisher, etc., instead of just author and title.

parent felipefar 2 years ago

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