the speaker: Lukas Rieder
working for “paper c”
some approaches
writing PDF
… act as flying saucer …
UNIX tools
xpdf :
$ pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 …
pdftk
$ pdftk compressed.pdf uncompress output uncompressed.pdf
imagemagick
$ convert … # e.g. towards JPEG
the speaker wrapped some unix tools and called that “PdfUtils”, and released it as GEM.