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pdf inspection tool
SHOW HN2024
270points
50comments
#259of 3,515 in 2024
Top 8%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
2 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Execution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative to existing PDF inspection tools
From 2 comments
This is cool! Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here: -…
svat on HNFor exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2]. [1] https://itextpdf.com/products/rups [2]…
nbenitezl on HN
Objections
Crashes when opening PDFs
From 2 comments
I was curious to try this out as it might actually solve a minor problem of mine right now, but it crashed as soon as I tried to open a PDF. Installed from git using cargo 1.80.1…
jerknextdoor on HNheh, parsing PDF files from the wild is practically a community driven fuzzer
mdaniel on HN
Existing tools like mutool and RUPS already cover this
From 2 comments
Mutool is the one I suggest to people. The easiest way to understand a PDF is to decompress it and then just read the contents. ``` mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf ``` At that…
aidos on HNFor exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2]. [1] https://itextpdf.com/products/rups [2]…
nbenitezl on HN
Requests
Support for exporting raw streams and saving objects
From 1 comment
Nice! My tool should be runnable in the browser thanks to wasm compatibility with Rust + egui :) Btw I've just tried it, and it's a little bit buggy in Safari with a 504kb PDF…
nicolodev on HN
Questions
Is it safe to open potentially malicious PDFs with it?
From 1 comment
Since this mentions malware, is this tool safe to use to open it? Or do you still need to use other protection methods?
eviks on HN
Alternatives named
RUPS (iText)
From 1 comment
For exploring the inners of a PDF you also have RUPS[1] which is open source and easily installed in Linux through flathub[2]. [1] https://itextpdf.com/products/rups [2]…
nbenitezl on HN
mutool
From 1 comment
Mutool is the one I suggest to people. The easiest way to understand a PDF is to decompress it and then just read the contents. ``` mutool clean -d in.pdf out.pdf ``` At that…
aidos on HN
PDFSyntax
From 1 comment
This is cool! Here are some other similar(?) tools, for seeing the inner contents of a PDF file (the raw objects etc), but I haven't compared them to this tool here: -…
svat on HN
ReportMill PDF viewer
From 1 comment
Great work! I'm sorry to be another jerk posting a link to something similar, but here is my solution, running in the browser (just drag and drop your PDF in):…
jeffreportmill1 on HN
PDFedit
From 1 comment
The venerable PDFedit[1] more or less forces you to confront the internal structure of the PDF file as well. [1] http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html
mananaysiempre on HN