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Observed arrival · 2026-08-29

pdfboss: a PDF engine written in Rust

pdfboss.dev Observed source
Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An open PDF toolkit that parses files, extracts text, rasterizes pages to PNG, and exposes the same engine through a CLI and Python bindings.

Landing page captured for the 2026-08-29 issue.

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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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