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		redman25 on March 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly JavaScript apis for browsers can do a lot now. It’s great! I built something similar recently with Mozilla’s PDF library. It’s for diffing PDFs but everything happens locally. https://parepdf.com

simonmales on March 3, 2021 [–]

Sweet, when I discovered the Mozilla PDF.js I thought client side manipulation of PDFs would be a breeze.

I built a tool that required to count the number of pages of a PDF (ca. 2014-2015). At the time server side counting was the 'sure' way in my brief research.

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