How can I visually inspect a PDF? Are there any tools that work on windows?

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How can I inspecting PDF files, preferable with a tool?

Use case: I'm trying to programmatically generate PDF files (using iText). I'm having trouble achieving certain layouts, but I have PDF files with text laid out the way I want (generated from Word). I would like to reverse engineer how they do it.

PDF Inspector seems to be good, but I'm looking for something for Windows.

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If you want to work programmatically from within Python, pdfminer is a good option. It allows you to work with PDF structure in memory as an object hierarchy or serialize it as XML.

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