[HN Gopher] Xpdf ___________________________________________________________________ Xpdf Author : app4soft Score : 30 points Date : 2021-02-07 20:39 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.xpdfreader.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.xpdfreader.com) | yjftsjthsd-h wrote: | I liked xpdf, but stopped using it after my package manager said | it had unpatched CVEs (and at least implied unmaintained). Any | chance it's been cleaned up now? I see a recent release but | couldn't find a change log. | fiddlerwoaroof wrote: | For something like PDF, I wonder how practical it would be to | write a program that just strips out "dangerous" features. | Maybe this wouldn't help with buffer overflows and similar, but | it might be useful. | | Maybe just roundtripping your pdf through djvu or postscript | would be sufficient? | fsflover wrote: | More FLOSS PDF readers: https://pdfreaders.org/. | coderintherye wrote: | xpdf has a great feature for transforming a pdf to text, | pdftotext, which you can pass the -table option in order to get | tabular/csv style data. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-07 23:00 UTC)