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Help: Take 150 seconds to parse

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Description

I'm trying to process this document - http://imwerden.de/pdf/bocharov_roman_tolstogo_vojna_i_mir_1978__ocr.pdf and it takes +-150 seconds.

Why so long ? Speed depends on font type ?

Also similar size pdf (http://gsl.mit.edu/media/programs/south-africa-summer-2015/materials/0to1.pdf) processed for 5 seconds.

const parsePdf = (filePath) => {
  let pdfParserRawText = new PDFParser(this,1);
  pdfParserRawText.loadPDF(filePath);
  
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    pdfParserRawText.on('pdfParser_dataError', errData => {
      reject(new Error(errData.parserError));
    });
    pdfParserRawText.on('pdfParser_dataReady', pdfData => {
      const rawText = pdfParserRawText.getRawTextContent();
      resolve(rawText);
    });
  });
};

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Tech stack
javascript
Domain
backend, performance
Issue type
Bug
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Estimated time
3-5 days
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