lopdf
A Rust library for PDF document manipulation. (by J-F-Liu)
PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files (by py-pdf)
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| lopdf | PyPDF2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 30 | |
| 1,477 | 7,359 | |
| - | 3.6% | |
| 6.6 | 9.5 | |
| 8 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Rust | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-Clause |
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lopdf
Posts with mentions or reviews of lopdf.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
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How to get text from a PDF file (lopdf)?
I want to get the text of the first page of a PDF file. I'm using the lopdf crate.
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How to convert SVGs containing text to a PDF?
I then came up with the genius idea of exporting the PDF using Inkscape and then just edit the text of the PDF, but using lopdf the text is all stacked ontop of each other. How can I simply convert a SVG to PDF using Rust or change the text of a PDF using Rust?
- Rust crate to merge PDFs
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Purdy: An experimental PDF renderer using WebGPU
I copied a lot from lopdf which is a terrific library for PDF parsing. I don't rely on it explicitly as a dependency because there are some things I'm choosing to do differently, but I'd say at least 80% of the parsing logic is the same so it helped me to bootstrap quite a bit.
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 2023-01-24.
- 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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Print View
one of many options
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The Pdfalyzer is a tool for visualizing the inner tree structure of a PDF in large and colorful diagrams as well as scanning its internals for suspicious content
Feel free. I poked around the PyPDF2 code and it seems like reading signatures is something it supports via xfa_form property (GitHub issue where this was discussed; seems to have been closed v. recently) . would probably be a very simple PR provided you knew where to look for that property.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing lopdf and PyPDF2 you can also consider the following projects:
printpdf - An easy-to-use library for writing PDF in Rust
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
kiss3d - Keep it simple, stupid 3d graphics engine for Rust.
ReportLab
purdy - An experimental PDF renderer built on WebGPU
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
gfx - [maintenance mode] A low-overhead Vulkan-like GPU API for Rust.
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
msdfgen - Multi-channel signed distance field generator
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
askama - Type-safe, compiled Jinja-like templates for Rust
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.