There were several ideas floating around wo a real consensus. From my perspective PDFbox would benefit most if missing pieces could be implemented:
- shading types as Tilman suggested - signature algorithms - support for different character sets during PDF generation - PDF optimization e.g. remove duplicate resources when merging PDFs or no longer needed ones during splitting a PDF - PoC work could also be feasible of how to implement different PDF levels and standards in a similar, extendable manner. I’d rather see us completing PDF core features than adding new functionality like table recognition, high level PDF creation API or OCR interface although these would be very beneficial functionalities. In addition working on the documentation might be something although not for a ‚core‘ developer. One question which needs to be answered is who would act as a mentor? BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 13.02.2014 um 09:19 schrieb Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de>: > Hi, > > for those who are still interested in GSoC, [1] has some information on how > to participate. According to the mail it's maybe to late, but I would give > it a try. I've shared a private link, only available to PMC-members, as some > of the imformation seems to be private. > > BR > Andreas Lehmkühler > > [1] > https://mail-search.apache.org/pmc/private-arch/pdfbox-private/201401.mbox/%3c22705bfe-be29-492a-be12-0749317fb...@apache.org%3E > > >> John Hewson <j...@jahewson.com> hat am 11. Februar 2014 um 23:52 geschrieben: >> >> >> The ideas are supposed to be starting points for students to make their own >> proposal, so give them some ideas for expanding/reducing the scope and they >> can choose themselves. >> >> -- John >> >> On 11 Feb 2014, at 13:47, Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: >> >>> Its unclear what the "size" of a participation must be. What I'd like to >>> have is someone to implement shading types 6 and 7, and I think it would be >>> 1-2 weeks of work. This would be perfect for a math student, or a computer >>> science student who is specializing in graphics. My own math is from school >>> 30 years ago and we never did Bézier curves, tensor-products and Bernstein >>> polynomials so I can't do it without learning the math first. >>> >>> Tilman >>
