Observed arrival · 2026-08-29
pdfboss: a PDF engine written in Rust
An open PDF toolkit that parses files, extracts text, rasterizes pages to PNG, and exposes the same engine through a CLI and Python bindings.
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The command surface extends from ordinary document work into low-level inspection: users can query JSON, view hexadecimal data, run jq-style expressions, and inspect objects. The homepage also shows separate installation routes through pip and cargo, plus prebuilt abi3 wheels for CPython 3.12 and later. Documentation and benchmark pages are linked, but their contents are not included in the supplied extract.
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