Hacker News: alemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alemosHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 30 May 2026 03:48:05 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by alemos in "How I Made PDF Table Rendering 95% Faster in an Afternoon"]]>"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...

]]>Fri, 16 May 2025 07:32:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002691alemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002691<![CDATA[How I Made PDF Table Rendering 95% Faster in an Afternoon]]>Article URL: https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/how-i-made-pdf-table-rendering-faster

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002690

Points: 7

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]]>Fri, 16 May 2025 07:32:33 +0000https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/how-i-made-pdf-table-rendering-fasteralemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002690https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44002690<![CDATA[New comment by alemos in "iText Added GraalVM Compatibility"]]>A quick article on how iText began looking at GraalVM’s Native Image technology and our continuing development in this area. All because of a random meeting in SF.

]]>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:43:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502631alemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502631https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502631<![CDATA[iText Added GraalVM Compatibility]]>Article URL: https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/the-road-to-graalvm-native-image-compatibility

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502630

Points: 2

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]]>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 07:43:53 +0000https://kb.itextpdf.com/itext/the-road-to-graalvm-native-image-compatibilityalemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43502630<![CDATA[iText PDF Library turns 25]]>Article URL: https://itextpdf.com/blog/technical-notes/itext-suite-91-25-years-svg-css-faster-tables

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087204

Points: 57

# Comments: 27

]]>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:10:51 +0000https://itextpdf.com/blog/technical-notes/itext-suite-91-25-years-svg-css-faster-tablesalemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087204https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087204<![CDATA[New comment by alemos in "Ingesting PDFs and why Gemini 2.0 changes everything"]]>what does marker add on top of docling?

]]>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 09:28:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960648alemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42960648<![CDATA[New comment by alemos in "Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs"]]>pdfHTML from iText does it (you can create PDF/UA-1, PDF/UA-2, and PDF/A documents from it), without using any external engine. You can even add your custom processing.

]]>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 12:54:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690780alemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39690780<![CDATA[After 20 opensource years of iText 1, iText 8 has just landed]]>Article URL: https://itextpdf.com/blog/itext-news-technical-notes/get-excited-itext-8-here

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029641

Points: 3

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]]>Mon, 22 May 2023 10:37:21 +0000https://itextpdf.com/blog/itext-news-technical-notes/get-excited-itext-8-herealemoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029641https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36029641