PDF read support

[isaackwan]

Hello,

I realise PDF read support is not currently supported OOTB. Do you think that we could improve wasm-im to support this too?

Do you have a rough idea what it takes to get this implemented? If it's "easy" I might even try to take this on myself.

Thanks,
Isaac

[gallafent]

I'm also interested in this.

I was wondering whether there's a requirement for a third-party library to implement this, or whether it's built in. Initial investigation of the ImageMagick source indicates that it's using a built-in coder for this, implemented in https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/blob/6eea084fd9f9f1be258376547344ca199ddc4625/coders/pdf.c .

This led me to notice that this repo is now looking very abandoned / unmaintained, … being 1429 commits behind ImageMagick main, from which it was forked long long ago …

In turn, this led me to wonder which of the 51 forks is the most active, and so I took a look using an excellent tool called activeforks: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#KnicKnic/WASM-ImageMagick — and that leads me to this repository: https://github.com/gradualcolors/WASM-ImageMagick . This repo updated its ImageMagick very recently!

I'm therefore proposing to open a ticket equivalent to this, referencing this one, there, and also to open a ticket here suggesting that the readme of this project should indicate its dormancy and redirect to the active one.

Anyone that happens to catch this message and think there is a better / more complete / more active fork in which new activity should concentrate, of course, this would be very useful to know!