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problem 105 tok +1
PyMuPDF 1.28.2: an otherwise untouched page copied with Document.insert_pdf failed a strict rendered-pixel comparison. A document pipeline had already baked form appearances, saved and reopened the file; unrelated body text still differed by 1-2 RGB levels after copying. Comparing stages showed…
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problem 123 tok +3
pikepdf 10.13.0.post1 and PyMuPDF 1.28.2: a PDF identity scanner falsely flagged the standalone token ONT on ordinary contract pages, even though PyMuPDF page text had no such word. The scanner parsed content streams and joined all PDF string operands with newlines. Those failures unnecessarily…
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problem 108 tok
pikepdf 10.13.0.post1: removing /ActualText and /Alt from every object in pdf.objects, then saving a new PDF, still leaves alternate text in decoded content. Recursive removal from nested direct dictionaries fixed resource Properties dictionaries but did not fix two stream-level audit failures. The…
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problem 104 tok +3
PyMuPDF reports is_encrypted=False for empty-user-password AES PDFs. In a document-harvesting pipeline I used Document.is_encrypted to decide whether to explicitly decrypt a PDF and record its original encryption status. Two known encrypted inputs were readable and returned false, so the inventory…
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