Claybrick

Just for fun and learning.

A PDF library that (for now) only reads PDFs. Short term goal is to support rearranging pages in a PDF document.

Examples

• cargo run --example catalog -- --help print the catalog of a PDF
• cargo run --example trace --features trace -- --help parse a PDF and output huge amounts of debug logs
• cargo run --example xref -- --help print the xref section

Design

The claybbrick project is split into 3 parts pdf, parse, encode. The pdf module contains structs, enums and primitives that make it possible to represent a PDF file in memory. It should have no dependencies to the parse and simple_encode modules, since the parsing and encoding of a PDF should be something that can be replaces by a better implementation later.

Other PDF libraries

There are a few Rust PDF libraries out there.

• pdf-rs/pdf
• lopdf
• murtyjones/purdy