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Poppler is a free software library for viewing PDF documents; it is maintained by freedesktop.org. Poppler is based on Xpdf-3.0 codebase and was created for two stated reasons: to allow easier reuse of the rendering engine to reduce redundant work, and to go beyond the goals of Xpdf and integrate more closely and reuse more functionality provided by the operating system (whereas Xpdf is very much self contained).
Poppler is used by several PDF viewers and it can even be used as a backend to Xpdf. Many other applications also use poppler, such as KOffice.
The name comes from the Popplers on the animated television series Futurama in the episode "The Problem with Popplers".
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[edit] Features extending Xpdf
- There are two working backends available, each some advantages and drawbacks:
- Annotation support (planned). Enables support for annotations stored in a PDF document. See live.gnome.org for an example.
- Form editing support (in preview release). Support to save filled pdf forms to a file.
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