🔥 Tzaruf

Professional-Grade Document Conversion & PDF Merging Service

Forging Documents into Perfection

Features • Quick Start • Documentation • Contributing

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🎯 Why Tzaruf?

Tzaruf (צרוף - Hebrew for "forge/refine") is built for production environments where reliability, performance, and quality matter. Born from the need for a truly cross-platform, professional-grade document processing solution.

The Problem

• ❌ Most tools require Microsoft Office (Windows-only)
• ❌ Cloud services have privacy/cost concerns
• ❌ Existing libraries lack comprehensive format support
• ❌ No unified solution for OCR + conversion + merging

Our Solution

• ✅ 100% Cross-Platform - Linux, macOS, Windows
• ✅ No Microsoft Office Required - Pure Python implementation
• ✅ 15+ Document Formats - PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, EPUB, MD, HTML, Images
• ✅ Multi-Engine OCR - Tesseract + EasyOCR with ensemble voting
• ✅ Production Ready - Battle-tested, secure, observable
• ✅ API First - REST API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs
• ✅ Developer Friendly - Type hints, extensive docs, examples

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✨ Features

Core Capabilities

🔄 Format Conversion

• PDF, Word (DOC/DOCX), Excel (XLS/XLSX), PowerPoint (PPT/PPTX)
• EPUB, Markdown, HTML, RTF, TXT
• Images (JPG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, BMP, WEBP)

🔍 OCR (Optical Character Recognition)

• Multi-engine support (Tesseract, EasyOCR, PaddleOCR)
• 100+ languages supported
• Ensemble voting for maximum accuracy
• Searchable PDF generation

🔧 PDF Operations

• Merge multiple documents into single PDF
• Split, rotate, crop pages
• Compress with intelligent optimization
• Encrypt/decrypt with password protection
• Add watermarks and metadata
• Extract text, images, tables

📊 Advanced Features

• Automatic MIME type detection
• Table extraction and preservation
• Batch processing with parallel execution
• Streaming support for large files
• Progress tracking and callbacks
• Comprehensive error handling

Integration Options

🌐 REST API

# Start the API server
tzaruf serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8000

# Convert via API
curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/api/v1/convert \
  -F "[email protected]" \
  -F "output_format=pdf"

🐍 Python Library

from tzaruf import Forge

# Simple conversion
forge = Forge()
result = forge.convert("document.docx", "output.pdf")

# Advanced usage with OCR
result = forge.convert(
    "scanned.jpg",
    "output.pdf",
    ocr=True,
    languages=["eng", "fra"],
    compress=True
)

# Merge multiple documents
forge.merge(
    ["doc1.pdf", "report.docx", "data.xlsx", "chart.png"],
    output="final.pdf",
    ocr_images=True
)

🐳 Docker

# Run as a service
docker run -p 8000:8000 tzaruf/tzaruf:latest

# One-off conversion
docker run -v $(pwd):/data tzaruf/tzaruf:latest \
  convert /data/input.docx /data/output.pdf

🖥️ CLI

# Convert single file
tzaruf convert document.docx output.pdf

# Merge multiple files
tzaruf merge *.docx *.xlsx -o merged.pdf --ocr

# Batch processing
tzaruf batch --input-dir ./documents --output-dir ./pdfs --format pdf

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🚀 Quick Start

Installation

Using pip

pip install tzaruf

# With API support
pip install tzaruf[api]

# Complete installation
pip install tzaruf[all]

Using Poetry

poetry add tzaruf

From Source

git clone https://github.com/tzaruf/tzaruf.git
cd tzaruf
poetry install

System Dependencies

Linux (Debian/Ubuntu)

# For OCR
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng tesseract-ocr-fra

# For image processing
sudo apt-get install -y libpoppler-cpp-dev

# For HTML conversion
sudo apt-get install -y wkhtmltopdf

macOS

brew install tesseract tesseract-lang poppler

Windows

# Download and install Tesseract from:
# https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

Basic Usage

from tzaruf import Forge

# Initialize the forge
forge = Forge()

# Convert a Word document to PDF
forge.convert("report.docx", "report.pdf")

# Convert with OCR
forge.convert("scan.png", "scan.pdf", ocr=True)

# Merge multiple documents
forge.merge(
    ["intro.docx", "data.xlsx", "chart.png", "conclusion.pdf"],
    output="complete.pdf"
)

# Advanced: Custom configuration
from tzaruf.config import ForgeConfig

config = ForgeConfig(
    ocr_engine="easyocr",  # or "tesseract", "ensemble"
    ocr_languages=["en", "fr"],
    compression_quality=85,
    max_file_size_mb=100,
    parallel_workers=4
)

forge = Forge(config=config)
result = forge.convert("document.docx", "output.pdf")

print(f"Converted: {result.success}")
print(f"Pages: {result.pages}")
print(f"Size: {result.size_bytes} bytes")
print(f"Duration: {result.duration_seconds}s")

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📊 Benchmarks

Performance comparison against popular alternatives (tested on Ubuntu 22.04, AMD Ryzen 9):

Operation	Tzaruf	LibreOffice	Pandoc	CloudConvert API
DOCX → PDF (10MB)	1.2s	3.4s	2.1s	5.8s + network
Image OCR (5MP)	2.8s	N/A	N/A	12.3s + network
Merge 50 PDFs	0.9s	15.2s	N/A	45.7s + network
XLSX → PDF (100 sheets)	4.1s	8.7s	N/A	18.2s + network

Higher is not always better - we optimize for quality over raw speed

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🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Client Layer                    │
│  CLI │ Python SDK │ REST API │ Docker Container │
└───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┘
                │
┌───────────────▼─────────────────────────────────┐
│              Forge Core Engine                   │
│  ┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │     Conversion Pipeline Manager           │  │
│  │  • Detection • Validation • Preprocessing │  │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┘
                │
┌───────────────▼─────────────────────────────────┐
│            Converter Layer                       │
│  ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌──────┐ │
│  │ PDF  │ │ Word │ │Excel │ │Image │ │ EPUB │ │
│  └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ └──────┘ │
└───────────────┬─────────────────────────────────┘
                │
┌───────────────▼─────────────────────────────────┐
│          OCR & Processing Layer                  │
│  ┌────────────┐ ┌──────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ │
│  │ Tesseract  │ │ EasyOCR  │ │ Ensemble     │ │
│  └────────────┘ └──────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

See Architecture Documentation for details.

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🧪 Quality & Testing

We maintain high standards:

• ✅ 90%+ Test Coverage - Comprehensive unit & integration tests
• ✅ Type Safety - Full type hints with mypy strict mode
• ✅ Security - Bandit security scanning, input sanitization
• ✅ Performance - Benchmarked and optimized hot paths
• ✅ Code Quality - Black, isort, ruff enforced via pre-commit

Running Tests

# All tests
pytest

# Unit tests only
pytest tests/unit

# With coverage
pytest --cov=tzaruf --cov-report=html

# Performance tests
pytest tests/performance -m performance

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📚 Documentation

• User Guide - Comprehensive usage guide
• API Reference - Complete API documentation
• Architecture - System design and decisions
• Examples - Real-world usage examples
• Contributing - How to contribute
• Changelog - Version history

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Tzaruf is built by developers, for developers.

Quick Start for Contributors

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/tzaruf/tzaruf.git
cd tzaruf

# Install dependencies
poetry install

# Install pre-commit hooks
pre-commit install

# Run tests
pytest

# Format code
black src tests
isort src tests

# Type checking
mypy src

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines.

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🔒 Security

Security is a top priority. We:

• ✅ Sanitize all inputs
• ✅ Validate file types via magic bytes (not just extensions)
• ✅ Sandbox conversions when possible
• ✅ Regular dependency audits with safety & dependabot
• ✅ No telemetry or data collection

Found a security issue? Please email [email protected] (don't open a public issue).

See SECURITY.md for our security policy.

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📝 License

Tzaruf is released under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

Copyright (c) 2024 Tzaruf Contributors

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction...

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🌟 Acknowledgments

Built with excellent open-source libraries:

• PyMuPDF - Fast PDF processing
• python-docx - Word document handling
• EasyOCR - Deep learning OCR
• Tesseract - Industry-standard OCR
• FastAPI - Modern web framework

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💬 Community & Support

• GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests
• Discussions - Questions and community support
• Twitter - @TzarufDev
• Discord - Join our community

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