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qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter
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QubesOS / qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter

qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter

Qubes component: app-linux-pdf-converter

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Qubes component: app-linux-pdf-converter

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2020-10-21 18:19:43 UTC to 2024-12-12 19:43:05 UTC.

012020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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mjevans·Dec 12, 2024
It looks like the qpdf-converter source, along with everything else, is now on Github according to the Developer / Source Code links on the site. https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter Their source code seems to take the most obvious path... flatten it to an image printout then possibly do more? https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter/blo... https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter/blo... Though at a quick skim I can't see any OCR steps.
In Converting untrusted PDFs into trusted ones: The Qubes Way (2013)
segfaultbuserr·Jan 2, 2021
QubesOS has a "TrustedPDF converter" [0] that sanitizes a PDF to the extreme level for ultimate security - it converts the entire PDF to RGB pixmaps in an isolated virtual machine. The author has a blog post at [1]. Obviously you lose the ability to use the menu, search, copy or paste, but it's as 0day-proof as you can get for a horrifying file format. [0] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-app-linux-pdf-converter [1] https://blog.invisiblethings.org/2013/02/21/converting-untru...
In Horrifying PDF Experiments

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