borb
borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python. (by jorisschellekens)
PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files (by py-pdf)
| borb | PyPDF2 | |
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| 66 | 31 | |
| 3,468 | 8,949 | |
| 0.5% | 2.1% | |
| 5.5 | 9.6 | |
| 5 months ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-Clause |
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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
PyPDF2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF2.
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
- Yara scanning PDF files
- I need help install PyPDF2 library on my computer
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How to convert SVGs containing text to a PDF?
I still haven't needed to do that part in Rust yet, unfortunately. My mother is still using the pypdf-based concatenator I wrote for her years ago.
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Recommendations for parsing text from .pdf files
I did an extremely quick search and am linking this without knowing anything about it.
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Learning programming from the beginning to extract data from PDFs?
Pretty much study Python until this Github repo'd Readme makes sense!: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2
- Is there a GUI for PyPDF2?
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Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
As other posters have said, if you're just generating PDFs, that's doable with minor library support. If you want to open existing PDFs and do anything non-trivial with them, you'll want a mature, powerful PDF parsing library. PDFKit, which is part of macOS is pretty amazing. If you need portability, something like Python's PyPDF2 is probably the best bet. Knowing the Rust community, though, we'll probably get a library at least as good in Rust in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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PyPDF4 merger not merging pdf's - what am I doing wrong?
Why are you using PyPDF4 which seems to have no active maintainer and no documentation instead of PyPDF2 which has both?
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What are some alternatives?
When comparing borb and PyPDF2 you can also consider the following projects:
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
ReportLab
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory