Dear Sir or Madam, my name is Stefan and I'm working at CAS Software AG, a company in Karlsruhe. Currently, I'm looking for a topic for my master thesis. As we are using your library PDFBox for document to image conversion, I had an idea for a topic. But first, I would like to ask you, if there has been some investigation, or developement by your team before, regarding this topic.
The basic idea is, to increase performance of the document conversion by using hardware acceleration (GPU). If I'm right, there is no computation done by the GPU at the moment. Which means, that everything during document conversion gets processed by the CPU. My assumption is, that the GPU could be used for transforming elements, such as text/glyphs, images, etc. to their final size and position. I assume, that this increases the performance. The question is, if there has been any investigation with respect to hardware acceleration. I very much look forward to hearing from you. Best regards, Stefan Sauerer
