Switch to different pdf library for shinylive

ianberg-volpe / pdf-xfa-tools

python tools for extracting info out of pdf XFA forms. Somewhat of a 'hard fork' of original python work done in pdf-bullets

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Switch to different pdf library for shinylive #1

Open ianberg-volpe opened 4 months ago

ianberg-volpe commented 4 months ago

pikepdf is not currently supported with pyodide: https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide/issues/3844. This is needed for standard form wizards using ShinyLive. Other potential options:

pypdf (pure python)
pymupdf (has instructions for installing with pyodide)

ianberg-volpe commented 1 month ago

Done in pypdf branch ... not 100% functional (the forms can't be edited after writing data to them w/ the script) but it seems like this is being worked on (e.g., https://github.com/py-pdf/pypdf/issues/2824 and linked issues)