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ditServices/reports-parser
Camera Reports PDF Generation
A C-based tool that defines a custom markup language for film camera assistants and parses it into PDF camera reports. Very niche: it solves a real paperwork problem on film sets, not a general-purpose PDF library.
- Uses Flex/Bison for the grammar, which is the right tool for this — a hand-rolled parser would be a maintenance nightmare
- libharu is a solid, well-maintained PDF generation library; not reinventing that wheel is a good call
- Homebrew tap means installation is actually usable on Mac without building from source
- Dead since June 2020, Travis CI integration is almost certainly broken (travis-ci.com shut down free tier), and the Trello roadmap link is the only project planning artifact
- 2 stars, 0 forks — no community, no bug reports being addressed, no sign of active maintenance
- Build setup is fragile: requires manual Makefile edits on macOS to point at a Homebrew Bison path, which will break across machines and Bison versions
- No tests, no grammar documentation beyond a single sample.txt — if the markup language changes, there's nothing to catch regressions