[HN Gopher] Xpdf
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       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.
        
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