Hacker News Reader

alemoson How I Made PDF Table Rendering 95% Faster in an Afternoon

"That's tagging a 50k cell table almost 40x faster. Not bad for an afternoon's work, eh?"

Commits that made it happen:

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/71451319ebb9463d2...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b50c34e14f012993f...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b6b212971e285a4a8...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/0626cd422a275ac40...

alemoson iText Added GraalVM Compatibility

A quick article on how iText began looking at GraalVM’s Native Image technology and our continuing development in this area. All because of a random meeting in SF.

alemoson Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything

what does marker add on top of docling?

alemoson Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs

pdfHTML from iText does it (you can create PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2, and PDF/A documents from it), without using any external engine. You can even add your custom processing.