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pdf-issues		pdfquery
	Project
2	Mentions	3
62	Stars	753
-	Growth	-
8.8	Activity	0.0
5 days ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
	Language	Python
-	License	MIT License

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pdf-issues

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-issues. 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

Merely for your consideration, if those were actual issues on that repo, (a) it would allow adding labels to them (as in https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-issues/issues?q=is%3A... ) (b) folks could comment, acting as a low-rent stackoverflow, and (c) it would allow anyone to contribute new ones versus the "PR against README.md" situation right now
That also more closely matches the mental model of those items: bugs against the specification, whether the official PDF Association agrees that they are or not
What to showcase on my github?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 31 Jan 2022

https://github.com/pdf-association/pdf-issues https://www.iso.org/standard/75839.html

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 pdf-issues and pdfquery you can also consider the following projects:

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

PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

release - Potabi's Release Engineering repository

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

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

djot - A light markup language

QuestPDF - QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc.

kaitai_struct_formats - Kaitai Struct: library of binary file formats (.ksy)

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.

bericht - Incremental HTML to PDF converter.