Currently working on thesis:
Me:(Using iText to convert PDF Files to String)
Groupmate: I think the conversion makes our program slower.
M: Fine, I'll search for other libraries

M:(Finds Apache PDF Box and another open source PDF Util)

M:(Tests using nanotime then converted to seconds)

PDFBox: 24.3464 seconds
PDFUtil : 20.8365 seconds

iText : 7.937 seconds

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Dear Java library developers. The javadoc is not an excuse to not write documentation.

Signed,
a very annoyed golang developer