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		How I Made PDF Table Rendering 95% Faster in an Afternoon (itextpdf.com)
		7 points by alemos 7 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

alemos 7 months ago | [–]

"That's tagging a 50k cell table almost 40x faster. Not bad for an afternoon's work, eh?"

Commits that made it happen:

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/71451319ebb9463d2...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b50c34e14f012993f...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/b6b212971e285a4a8...

https://github.com/itext/itext-java/commit/0626cd422a275ac40...

CJefferson 7 months ago | [–]

Always nice to see some digging into algorithms, and low level details.

Also, bonus points for speeding up tagging, and helping those who need accessible PDFs!

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