Is QuickPDF thread safe?

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   Hi,

I need to extract images and text from PDF files. To speed things up I have started to run image and text extraction in parallel. In essence I am calling DAExtractPageText and DAGetPageImageList in 2 threads for each page. This works great so far (speed up around 50%) but I am not sure if it's a smart thing to do.

Does anybody know if this is OK?

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hansmerkl Members Profile Find Members Posts Beginner Joined: 05 Feb 11 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 9	Post Options Post Reply Quote hansmerkl Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Is QuickPDF thread safe? Posted: 09 Feb 11 at 11:59PM
	Hi, I need to extract images and text from PDF files. To speed things up I have started to run image and text extraction in parallel. In essence I am calling DAExtractPageText and DAGetPageImageList in 2 threads for each page. This works great so far (speed up around 50%) but I am not sure if it's a smart thing to do. Does anybody know if this is OK?

AndrewC Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 08 Dec 10 Location: Geelong, Aust Status: Offline Points: 841	Post Options Post Reply Quote AndrewC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 12 Aug 11 at 3:26PM
	I am wondering if this is still working fine for you ? There are certain areas of the library where multithreading is an issue but this is mainly caused by the GDI+ routines and rendering. Andrew.