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Thanks again Kovid.
(1) would mean more work for me than I want to deal with, (plus cross platform is a big problem I can't support) and (2) would likely involve a lag of months even if they did agree, leaving users stuck in the meantime. BTW if anyone else out there wants to raise the feature request to the poppler team on our behalf anyway please do so, I can't be bothered with mailing lists personally as a way of support.
Option (3) of pypdf sounds a possibility, obviously it will be slower than pdfreflow but given that isn't an option any more it should hopefully still be faster than pdftohtml on the worst pdfs. I shall have to do some testing.
Worst case it is going to be (4). Though I recall from some examples in the early days of this plugin calibre easily taking an hour or more to process the pdf which is not nice when all you want is to see if it has an ISBN - particularly if after all that time the PDF doesn't actually have one!
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