# pdfcraft-content Layer L2: content streams (ISO 32000-2 §7.8.2, §8, §9). ```rust let parsed = parse(&stream.decoded()?); // operators with operands and source spans for op in &parsed.ops { if op.is("Tj") { /* … */ } } let bytes = serialize_ops(&parsed.ops); // write back (inline images kept whole) let m = Matrix::from_operands(&op.operands); // cm / Tm arithmetic, invert, bbox ``` The parser is tolerant (unreadable bytes are skipped and counted, never fatal) and never panics. `redact` and (later) `edit` build their interpreters on it; the graphics-state tracker and the `Patch` API of architecture §6 grow here. Unfiltered inline images with built-in or Indexed colour spaces, and image masks, use their sample layout (including per-row byte padding) to locate `EI`. This preserves pixel bytes that look like the terminator. Filtered images and resource-defined colour spaces retain the tolerant delimiter heuristic; damaged or truncated layouts fall back to it too.