pdfminer.six
Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF (by pdfminer)
PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files (by py-pdf)
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| 14 | 30 | |
| 5,451 | 7,396 | |
| 4.2% | 4.1% | |
| 6.8 | 9.5 | |
| 17 days ago | 6 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-Clause |
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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.
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Code to extract text from pdf to excel
I love to use PDFMiner and PDFQuery for this https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six https://towardsdatascience.com/scrape-data-from-pdf-files-using-python-and-pdfquery-d033721c3b28
- Advanced PDF to Excel with documents and example code
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how do I automate extracting data from two pdfs and input into an excel sheet according to an order number
Entering things in Excel is very easy. Extracting things from PDF is a pain. This (https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six) gets pretty close to what you need, but it may be easier to use this to just convert the entire PDF to text and parse the text to extract the info you need.
- Can I make a code to compare a pdf file and an excel sheet by line by line tell the difference in amounts?
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How do I now access GPT-4? I click the link but it just takes me to the information page, I don’t have access to it on the API playground page.
Convert pdf to string https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
- Extracting text from PDFs using pdfminer
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Recommendations for parsing text from .pdf files
Now I see that the project is abandoned but there's an active fork called pdfminer.six . Hope that helps.
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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
- Show HN: Search PDFs with Transformers and Python Notebook
- Best tools for PDF Scraping?
PyPDF2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF2.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
- Yara scanning PDF files
- I need help install PyPDF2 library on my computer
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How to convert SVGs containing text to a PDF?
I still haven't needed to do that part in Rust yet, unfortunately. My mother is still using the pypdf-based concatenator I wrote for her years ago.
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Recommendations for parsing text from .pdf files
I did an extremely quick search and am linking this without knowing anything about it.
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Learning programming from the beginning to extract data from PDFs?
Pretty much study Python until this Github repo'd Readme makes sense!: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2
- Is there a GUI for PyPDF2?
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Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
As other posters have said, if you're just generating PDFs, that's doable with minor library support. If you want to open existing PDFs and do anything non-trivial with them, you'll want a mature, powerful PDF parsing library. PDFKit, which is part of macOS is pretty amazing. If you need portability, something like Python's PyPDF2 is probably the best bet. Knowing the Rust community, though, we'll probably get a library at least as good in Rust in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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PyPDF4 merger not merging pdf's - what am I doing wrong?
Why are you using PyPDF4 which seems to have no active maintainer and no documentation instead of PyPDF2 which has both?
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Print View
one of many options
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The Pdfalyzer is a tool for visualizing the inner tree structure of a PDF in large and colorful diagrams as well as scanning its internals for suspicious content
Feel free. I poked around the PyPDF2 code and it seems like reading signatures is something it supports via xfa_form property (GitHub issue where this was discussed; seems to have been closed v. recently) . would probably be a very simple PR provided you knew where to look for that property.
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.
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
ReportLab
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
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2]
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.