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		bthorben on May 8, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How fast is PDF.js? We realize that the text layer is sometimes a performance problem. We pushed already a lot of improvements to it and there is more too come.

angersock on May 8, 2014 [–]

Not your all's fault...the nature of the beast is that a PDF, in the pathological case, could result in thousands and thousands of individually-styled DOM elements per page, right?

Not much to be done in that case.

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