pdfminer.six VS PDFMiner

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

pdfminer.six

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

PDFMiner

Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six. (by euske)
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pdfminer.six PDFMiner
14 6
5,451 5,179
4.6% -
6.8 0.0
17 days ago over 1 year ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs

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

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2]

ReportLab

pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.