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You should also check out pdf.js:

We use it in Polar:

https://getpolarized.io/

for our PDF management.

It's a pretty robust library and it renders everything on canvas BUT you also get the raw text in the DOM so you can play with it more as an API for managing PDFs.

REALLY nice to be able to use web standards when working with pdf.js.

The downside is that the graphics are rendered to canvas so you're only really getting an image.



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