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Top 23 Python PDF Projects
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paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged version of paperless: scan, index and archive all your physical documents
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h2ogpt
Private chat with local GPT with document, images, video, etc. 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports oLLaMa, Mixtral, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/ https://codellama.h2o.ai/
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PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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PyMuPDF
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
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pdfarranger
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
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malicious-pdf
💀 Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh
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pdftabextract
A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
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I steered a friend towards Paperless (and away from an LLM solution) as a way of searching/accessing GBs of architectural PDFs recently - so far, it’s apparently working well for them.
https://github.com/paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx
Project mention: TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14Try https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF - it uses Tesseract behind the scenes and it absolutely brilliant.
Project mention: Multi AI Agent Systems Using OpenAI's New GPT-4o Model | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-17
Project mention: Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-11Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?
https://weasyprint.org
I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.
Project mention: Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-30
I love to use PDFMiner and PDFQuery for this https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six https://towardsdatascience.com/scrape-data-from-pdf-files-using-python-and-pdfquery-d033721c3b28
Project mention: How do you parse tables in PDF with langchain? Especially, the context which is few lines above and below the table. | /r/LangChain | 2023-06-23
Project mention: Pdftool.org: modify pdfs offline in the browser | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-13On Linux I like to use:
https://github.com/pdfarranger/pdfarranger and https://gitlab.com/scarpetta/pdfmixtool for such tasks.
Project mention: Show HN: How do you OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python for free | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-02I had good repeated success extracting tables from PDFs using Camelot (Python, https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot)
the arxiv api is largely broken. Have a look at this: https://github.com/lukasschwab/arxiv.py/issues/129.
I am letting people know of permissive alternatives (https://github.com/paulocoutinhox/pdfium-lib) and their usage in web components (PDFium.wasm + PDF.js).
My comment also serves as a promise to open-source my components under the same permissive license.
I don't want people exposed to unnecessary stress.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python PDF related posts
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Web Extraction with Vision-LLMs Done the Right Way: Structured Data From Any URL with GPT-4o
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Stirling PDF: Self-hosted, web-based PDF manipulation tool
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Show HN: I just open sourced my document/website extractor for Vision-LLMs
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Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
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🔍Underrated Open Source Projects You Should Know About 🧠
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
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LlamaCloud and LlamaParse
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source PDF projects in Python? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | paperless-ngx | 17,416 |
| 2 | OCRmyPDF | 12,291 |
| 3 | h2ogpt | 10,801 |
| 4 | PyPDF2 | 7,585 |
| 5 | WeasyPrint | 6,698 |
| 6 | pdfplumber | 5,706 |
| 7 | pdfminer.six | 5,514 |
| 8 | PDFMiner | 5,179 |
| 9 | PyMuPDF | 4,249 |
| 10 | camelot | 3,553 |
| 11 | borb | 3,314 |
| 12 | pdfarranger | 3,077 |
| 13 | malicious-pdf | 2,710 |
| 14 | Camelot | 2,712 |
| 15 | Papermerge | 2,363 |
| 16 | xhtml2pdf | 2,188 |
| 17 | pdftabextract | 2,152 |
| 18 | tabula-py | 2,073 |
| 19 | pikepdf | 2,038 |
| 20 | pdf2image | 1,480 |
| 21 | arxiv.py | 995 |
| 22 | fpdf2 | 966 |
| 23 | pdfium-lib | 885 |
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