I’m working on a PDF → DOCX converter in Rust (for a Tauri app), aiming to preserve layout, tables, fonts, and spacing as accurately as possible.

From what I understand, PDFs don’t store structured content like DOCX, so reconstructing everything correctly is quite challenging.

I wanted to ask:

• Has anyone here worked on PDF to DOCX conversion in Rust?
• Are there any crates or tools that help with layout reconstruction?
• Is near-lossless conversion realistic using only Rust, or is a hybrid/external approach usually needed?
• How do you typically handle tables and complex layouts?

Also, I’d really appreciate any suggestions on how you would approach building something like this

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