kaitai_struct_formats vs pdfquery

kaitai_struct_formats

Kaitai Struct: library of binary file formats (.ksy) (by kaitai-io)

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formats.kaitai.io

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A fast and friendly PDF scraping library. (by jcushman)

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kaitai_struct_formats		pdfquery
	Project
3	Mentions	3
682	Stars	753
0.7%	Growth	-
6.3	Activity	0.0
12 days ago	Latest Commit	6 months ago
Kaitai Struct	Language	Python
-	License	MIT License

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kaitai_struct_formats

Posts with mentions or reviews of kaitai_struct_formats. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023

Kaitai has a repository of binary formats[1] that can be used in visualizers or to auto-generate parsers.
[1] https://formats.kaitai.io/
Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022

This is tangential to your submission, but PDF is the file format I use for exercising any library that claims to be a declarative file format (ala https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#readme )

pdfquery

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfquery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.

Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022

That makes sense, as "pdfquery" uses pdfminer.six as a dep: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery/blob/master/requirement...
Heatmap of age group wise daily deaths in Chennai [OC]
2 projects | /r/Chennai | 29 Jun 2021

Source: Scraped death certificates from GCC website. Scraped the PDFs using pdfquery library for python (shout out to techies Madhan and Atom for helping me get started and fixing code whenever I got stuck.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kaitai_struct_formats and pdfquery 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.

cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

jqjq - jq implementation of jq

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

i7j-rups - RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.

pdf-issues - Industry-based resolutions for issues and errata reported against any PDF-related specification

djot - A light markup language

pdfsyntax - A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file

bericht - Incremental HTML to PDF converter.