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by missblit 1308 days ago
QPDF is a good C++ library for "content preserving" PDF transformations, and is used by the Python PikePDF library.
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I've found out the hard way that boxing/unboxing of PDF primitives to Python is _really_ expensive, so that my workflow has been counter-intuitively quite a lot slower than with PyPDF2.