borb
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python. (by jorisschellekens)
PyMuPDF
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents. (by pymupdf)
| borb | PyMuPDF | |
|---|---|---|
| 66 | 8 | |
| 3,468 | 6,971 | |
| 0.5% | 6.1% | |
| 5.5 | 9.7 | |
| 5 months ago | 1 day ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
borb
Posts with mentions or reviews of borb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-28.
- Caffè Italia * 30/04/23
- Borb: the open source PDF engine
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Generating PDF from some sort of template (jinja2) with headers, footers, images, not just a printed HTML document.
Have you looked at borb? I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you need I found it useful when doing something similar to you
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looking for an "low dependency" or pythonesque way to generate PDF's
You might take a look at borb
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fpdf2.5.2 : SVG support and comparison with borb
I will also perform a quick comparison with the borb library.
- borb, the open-source pure Python PDF engine
- borb: the open-source pure Python PDF engine
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borb, the pure Python PDF library
Get borb from source on GitHub, or download using PyPi.
- borb v2.0.16
- borb, the open source pure Python PDF library: new release
PyMuPDF
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyMuPDF.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-03.
- Using Docling’s OCR features with RapidOCR
- Ask HN: What are you using to parse PDFs for RAG?
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PDF Hell and Practical RAG Applications
PyMuPDF
- FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023
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Converting markdown to pdf in Python
This method is based on the use of the libraries markdown-it-py (conversion from markdown to html) and [PyMuPDF] https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF) (conversion from html to pdf). A small Python class links them together.
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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
I think you might mean PyMuPDF (https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF), a Python library built on top of the MuPDF C library (https://mupdf.com/).
PyMuPDF and MuPDF are both available under dual open source AGPL and commercial licenses. They have been around for many years and are under continual development.
[Disclaimer, i work for Artifex, who wrote MuPDF and recently acquired PyMuPDF.]
- M1 Mac: myuPDF install (wheel?)
- legacy install error: PyMuPDF?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing borb and PyMuPDF you can also consider the following projects:
ReportLab
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.