Show HN: Make Okular safer with a sandboxed MuPDF backend

Category: devtools

Tags: pdf, sandbox, okular, mupdf, security, document-rendering

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

okular-mupdf-ng is a MuPDF-based backend for Okular that isolates document rendering in a hardened worker process, mitigating MuPDF vulnerabilities. It adds practical features like OCR, theming, and annotation export while improving speed for large PDFs and ePUB/MOBI rendering.

Target audience: Linux desktop users, security-conscious developers, and Okular users

Repository: https://github.com/l4rzy/okular-mupdf-ng · C++ · GPL-3.0 · 17 stars

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