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PDF Tools is, among other things, a replacement of Emacs's DocView for PDF
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files. The key difference is that pages are not pre-rendered by
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e.g. ghostscript and stored in the file-system, but rather created on-demand and
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stored in memory. This rendering is performed by a special library named, for
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whatever reason, poppler, running inside a server program. This program is
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called epdfinfo and its job is to successively read requests from Emacs and
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produce the proper results, i.e. the PNG image of a PDF page.
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Actually, displaying PDF files is just one part of PDF Tools. Since poppler can
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provide us with all kinds of information about a document and is also able to
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modify it, there is a lot more we can do with it.
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WWW: https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools
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