Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig – 5x faster than MuPDF
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zpdf is a Zig-based PDF text extraction library that significantly outperforms MuPDF, achieving up to 17.9x speedup with parallel processing. It uses memory-mapped files, SIMD acceleration, and multi-threading to reach 45,000 pages/second throughput. The library maintains 99.6% accuracy while supporting multiple decompression filters and font encodings, though it lacks support for encrypted PDFs and some complex features.
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