Add more pdf-to-image engines? about camelot HOT 5 OPEN

Is there any update on removing GhostScript?

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Also GhostScript has a bad fame of being vulnerable. Probably we want something written in a memory-safe language like rust or java. So +1 for pdfbox. But for this being efficient we need lebedov/python-pdfbox#10 first. Also there is https://github.com/katjas/PDFrenderer

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Just FYI, pypdfium2 (ctypes binding to google's pdfium) is liberal-licensed, too.¹

pdfium is written in C/C++, though, so not an inherently memory safe language, as opposed to Java.
However, it's well-tested/analyzed and relied on by popular projects such as chromium and libreoffice, and as a tradeoff it doesn't require an additional runtime env.

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@dimitern What do you think?

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PR submitted: #384

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