WeasyPrint VS PyPDF2

I’d recommend Weasyprint (.net core wrapper) instead of wkhtmltopdf. It supports CSS Paged Media which is pretty much required for everything but the simplest of HTML2PDF conversions.

you can convert html to pdf using https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

Yeah, in the Python world there's WeasyPrint for PDF out in the wild as well. It's quite slick, but it's a harder sell because of Python, which corporate types seem to think is bad hacker central.

https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint

Another free CLI tool to consider is WeasyPrint. (Github)

PyPDF2 – A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

I prefer PyPDF2, but it hasn't been maintained for several years. One of these days I'll overcome inertia and convert projects to use PyMuPDF instead, as someone else mentioned.

I've had some success reading/writing PDFs using this library. Not sure if it will help you, but it's worth a shot.

Maybe PyPDF2 https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/

Many of our PDFs were buggy, and many python libraries to work with PDFs are buggy. The library PyPDF2 works well on many PDFs, but hangs in this loop on others. Attempts to use most python PDF libraries resulted in endless log files of:

I write my code in Python and found the pdf reader routines (https://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/). With it, I am able to convert my pdf statement into a huge string that can be parsed. Not there yet, maybe 85%, but it looks like I can make an exact replacement of the csv. By the time routine is polished up and tested with multiple statements, it'll probably be a solid week of effort.

Great, you should be able to use something like PyPDF2 to open the file, extract the text from the front page, and use that as a variable to rename the file. It may be a bit tricky to actually extract the desired title.

What text are you expecting from that pdf? AFAIK, textract just wraps parsers for various file types. Can you try something like PyPDF2 and see if you get the same/similar result?

Are they scanned or computer-prepared? If they're computer-prepared, you could use PyPDF2, and compare the contents of each page to all the others. Open the file, open each page and compare it to all the pages that follow it using things like extractText() and getContents().