About a month ago I wrote:
>> We have a new pdf parser (pplib from Paweł Jackowski) that replaces >> poppler. It is much smaller, a bit faster and it's written in >> pure C [...] > > Is there a project page for pplib? The source code of this library > contained in TeXLive is very, very uncommented – in particular, a > description of the API is completely missing, AFAICS. It also comes > with overly long lines and extremely densely written C code; it > almost feels as if the original source has been written with cweb or > something like that. I would be glad if someone could answer my question. Werner