I compared Two PDF Libraries. C one was faster than Rust one.

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Chapters: - 00:00:00 - Intro - 00:00:40 - Recap - 00:03:15 - Demo - 00:04:59 - lopdf - 00:07:43 - Installing lopdf - 00:10:12 - Studying lopdf docs - 00:12:04 - Trying out lopdf - 00:16:18 - Trying out lopdf on bigger PDF - 00:20:31 - Performance concerns with lopdf - 00:21:19 - Extracting text with lopdf - 00:25:26 - Realizing a huge mistake - 00:26:28 - pdftotext - 00:29:21 - poppler - 00:32:06 - Studying poppler docs - 00:32:34 - Trying out poppler - 00:38:59 - Poppler is just faster - 00:40:40 - Extracting text with poppler - 00:47:06 - Price of poppler - 00:50:07 - Integrating poppler into indexing - 00:59:21 - Testing the indexing of PDF papers - 01:11:09 - On Reading Books - 01:14:16 - On The Price of Dependencies - 01:18:05 - Wrapping up - 01:18:53 - QnA - 01:21:53 - Outro - 01:22:07 - Smooch References: - Source Code: https://github.com/tsoding/seroost - Rust PDF library: https://github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf - C PDF library: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/ - PDF papers: - https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762 - https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf