PDFMiner
Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six. (by euske)
pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables. (by jsvine)
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| PDFMiner | pdfplumber | |
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| 6 | 29 | |
| 5,179 | 5,527 | |
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| 0.0 | 8.4 | |
| over 1 year ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
PDFMiner
Posts with mentions or reviews of PDFMiner.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-15.
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Creating a python class for organizing courses I took in my education
Technically this information is on my transcript, so I will be trying to use pdfminer to extract that data if there is a way to use a class you recommend when using that code https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
- Dúvida séria sobre Metadados!
- Desktop File Search, How does it work! python or C# library libraries?
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Add Texts to existing PDF using Python
PDFMiner - for getting the fields of every possible PDF : only needed for weird cases where standard PDF reader methods do not work
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I'm having trouble with the PDFminer library in Python. Whenever I try to call a certain function it says that something is missing in the library itself
The Github page says it's been superseded by pdfminer.six. Perhaps try that instead.
- Extract specific data from multiple PDF files
pdfplumber
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfplumber.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
- Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
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Google Scholar PDF Reader
- [pdfplumber](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber)
- Parsing dates with PDFminer
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How to Extract Data from Tables in a Public Record PDF
I recently published a story that was based on some data analysis I did of a report I obtained from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in VA. I wanted to share a quick walkthrough of how I extracted the data from tables in a PDF using a Python module called PDFplumber. I also uploaded a video to Youtube if you prefer that.
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Code to extract text from pdf to excel
I've been working with pdfplumber, which is built atop pdfminer.six. It allows one to break the page up into sections and extract text from them in turn, which may help keep columns separated better.
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I need to parse unstructured tables from a pdf into a json, what can I do
You could try pdfplumber
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Advanced PDF to Excel with documents and example code
I'm not sure if there is a way to reliably detect bold characters: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/724
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how do I automate extracting data from two pdfs and input into an excel sheet according to an order number
pdfplumber is also pretty good. It can help segment text a bit better than pdfminer can alone.
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Extracting particular things from pdf program?
To handle machine generated one, a possible package is pdfplumber.
- Convert PDF to text for parsing
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PDFMiner and pdfplumber you can also consider the following projects:
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
py-pdf-parser - A Python tool to help extracting information from structured PDFs.
ReportLab
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.