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Discussions about how to organize further maintenance of this library

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Description

Based on the latest commit in master (over a year old) as well as 16 pending pull requests, i assume @smalot is not maintaining this library anymore. That's fine, he will have his reasons.

In this issue i would like to discuss where the community around this library should continue the work? There are some who already developed their own strain, for instance:

Found them using https://github.com/smalot/pdfparser/network

Any ideas?


EDIT: Removed fork from @lausek (ref).

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the maintenance discussion, the 16 pending pull requests, and the listed forks: amooij/pdfparser, gyselroth/pdfparser, and limweb/pdfparser. The issue does not identify files, tests, an entry point, or a concrete definition of done, so any next step would require agreeing on the library's future home and maintenance plan first.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php
Domain
backend
Issue type
Refactor
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
15/100

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