pdfminer.six VS pdfplumber

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

pdfminer.six

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

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.six pdfplumber
14 29
5,451 5,565
4.6% -
6.8 8.2
17 days ago 9 days 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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

py-pdf-parser - A Python tool to help extracting information from structured PDFs.

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

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

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory