pdfminer.six VS PyPDF2

Compare pdfminer.six vs PyPDF2 and see what are their differences.

pdfminer.six

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF (by pdfminer)

PyPDF2

A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2] (by mstamy2)
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pdfminer.six PyPDF2
14 1
5,451 4,162
4.6% -
6.8 8.9
17 days ago about 2 years ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pdfminer.six

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfminer.six. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-02.

PyPDF2

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  • Create PDF from a list of images
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 12 Apr 2022
    use PDF::FromImage;...my $pdf = PDF::FromImage->new;$pdf->load_images(@allPagesDir);$pdf->write_file($bookName . '.pdf'); I need to do something very similar to this, but in Python. I know the pyPdf module, but I would like something simple.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdfminer.six and PyPDF2 you can also consider the following projects:

PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.

pikepdf - A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF

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

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched [Moved to: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF]

PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

tabula-py - Simple wrapper of tabula-java: extract table from PDF into pandas DataFrame

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory