I compared Two PDF Libraries. C one was faster than Rust one.

Chapters:
00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:40 - Recap
00:03:15 - Demo
00:04:59 - lopdf
00:07:43 - Installing lopdf
00:10:12 - Studying lopdf docs
00:12:04 - Trying out lopdf
00:16:18 - Trying out lopdf on bigger PDF
00:20:31 - Performance concerns with lopdf
00:21:19 - Extracting text with lopdf
00:25:26 - Realizing a huge mistake
00:26:28 - pdftotext
00:29:21 - poppler
00:32:06 - Studying poppler docs
00:32:34 - Trying out poppler
00:38:59 - Poppler is just faster
00:40:40 - Extracting text with poppler
00:47:06 - Price of poppler
00:50:07 - Integrating poppler into indexing
00:59:21 - Testing the indexing of PDF papers
01:11:09 - On Reading Books
01:14:16 - On The Price of Dependencies
01:18:05 - Wrapping up
01:18:53 - QnA
01:21:53 - Outro
01:22:07 - Smooch


References:
Source Code: https://github.com/tsoding/seroost
Rust PDF library: https://github.com/J-F-Liu/lopdf
C PDF library: https://poppler.freedesktop.org/
PDF papers:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762
https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/...
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf