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There's already plenty of open source implementations of PDF parsing: Ghostscript, MuPDF, XPDF, Poppler, Pdfium, just to name the first few that come to mind.
by maskros 7y ago
There's already plenty of open source implementations of PDF parsing: Ghostscript, MuPDF, XPDF, Poppler, Pdfium, just to name the first few that come to mind.
- marcthe12 7y agoAll do not support typewriter or forms. This makes easier to fill up forms
- swiley 7y agoMuPDF supposedly supports forms in the latest version. I’ve never seen it work though.
- kxyvr 7y agoAlright, so I noticed this before and just tried it again. While I can fill in forms, does anyone know how to save them? The man page says "S", but that doesn't work and I remember this causing issues for me in the past.
- kxyvr 7y agoEvince can handle forms most of the time. That said, Acrobat allows things like Livecycle (XFA) forms, which are nonstandard and will break just about everything outside of Acrobat. Outside of that, pdftk can handle forms using the forms data format (FDF): https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:19444:-1:ed-1:v1:en https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:19444:-1:ed-1:v1:en Though, it was mostly an exercise in frustration. That said, IRS forms used to work great with this. However, long story short, Evince works most of the time.
- lbeltrame 7y agoI'm not sure whether it's just Poppler or the software that uses it (Okular by KDE), but I know that typewriter is supported (I just filled a few bureaucratic work-related form). Forms as well.
- skrause 7y agoAnd most of them are either (A)GPL or so prohibitively expensive for the commercial version that you can't really use them in small commercial projects at all.
- qwsxyh 7y agoSounds good to me.