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A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file - desgeeko/pdfsyntax
Inspecting the internal structure of a PDF file involves a lot of things (decompression, parsing, xref indexing, etc...) in order to make sense of the raw bytes. PDFSyntax takes care of the processing and proposes a visualization approach that consists in adding information and hyperlinks on top of a text that is a mostly a pretty-print of the PDF data once uncompressed. It respects the physical flow of the file while offering a logical navigation between revisions (incremental updates) and between objects.
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