zpdf: High-Performance PDF Text Extraction Library Written in Zig with SIMD Acceleration
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Summary
zpdf is an alpha-stage PDF text extraction library written in Zig programming language that uses zero-copy memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration for high performance. The library demonstrates significant speed improvements over MuPDF, with benchmarks showing 1.8x to 6.3x faster text extraction on various PDF documents. The project includes library, CLI, and Python bindings, and is optimized for logical reading order extraction.
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Zero-copy PDF text extraction library written in Zig
High-performance, memory-mapped parsing with SIMD acceleration
Build with zig build -Doptimize=ReleaseFast for best performance
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