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PDF Processing in the Browser Freezing on Real-World Documents : Real-World Input Tolerance for Format Processors
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Problem Breakdown
The robustness defect is format processors built against the spec's happy path: real-world files carry decades of producer variance : legacy encodings, malformed structure, vendor extensions, corruption : and a processor that accepts only clean inputs fails on exactly the files users need processed. Client-side PDF too…
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