pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables. (by jsvine)
pdf-tools
Emacs support library for PDF files. (by vedang)
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| 29 | 22 | |
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| 8.2 | 6.2 | |
| 16 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | C | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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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.
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
pdf-tools
Posts with mentions or reviews of pdf-tools.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
- Google Scholar PDF Reader
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Issue with pdf-tools on 3k display
Hi, I bought a galaxy book 3 ultra, which comes with a 2880x1800 display with 120hz. I am having a hard time to use github.com/vedang/pdf-tools with it. Sometimes it works fine, but most of the time the scrolling of pdfs gets really slow. If I change the resolution to 1920x1200 it gets back to normal and scrolls smothly. I tried running both on xorg and wayland and got the same result. Also, I tried running on a fresh emacs installation with the only package being pdf-tools, and the issue is still there. Does anybody experienced something similar? I am using emacs 27.1 on PopOS 22.04.
- Ask HN: What's a good, privacy focused bookmark manager?
- pdf-view-midnight-minor-mode not working properly after updating packages
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Integrate Zotero pdf notes with org roam
An alternative is to open PDFs, from Zotero or from anywhere else, with Emacs' pdf-tools (https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools). If you annotate the pdf, those annotations are part of the pdf. And you can also use org-noter (https://github.com/weirdNox/org-noter) and org-noter-pdftools (https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools; but see https://github.com/fuxialexander/org-pdftools/issues/93#issuecomment-1493314118 if you use the new org-noter from https://github.com/org-noter/org-noter).
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PDF Viewer that Compiles LaTeX Notes?
Possibly: Org-noter and/or PDF Tools.
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PDF viewing should work out of the box?
You can install pdf-tools https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools
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Just started learning LaTeX. I have a few questions
If you want to avoid extra software from AUR, there's a plugin for Emacs called pdf-tools. Mind you will lose an option to forward/inverse search! AFAIK pdf-tools is supported in ArchLinux, so you could use already installed Emacs as a PDF viewer.
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how to run pdf-view by default (and not Docview)
Pdf-view let you annotate the document. See https://github.com/vedang/pdf-tools for more features. There are also quiet a few packages that work with pdf-tools.
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Share your workflows for highlighting books - roam compatible epub reader with highlighting? nov.el / ereader
Under the hood everything uses pdftools -- you can do highlights and other annotations but they live in the original pdf.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdfplumber and pdf-tools you can also consider the following projects:
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el - A pdf-tools extension that provides continuous scrolling functionality
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
dwim-shell-command - Emacs shell commands with DWIM behaviour
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
homebrew-emacs-plus - Emacs Plus formulae for the Homebrew package manager
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
homebrew-emacsmacport - Emacs mac port formulae for the Homebrew package manager
py-pdf-parser - A Python tool to help extracting information from structured PDFs.
qpdf.el - A transient Emacs wrapper for qpdf
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
pdf-tools - Emacs support library for PDF files.
pdfplumber vs PDFMiner
pdf-tools vs pdf-continuous-scroll-mode.el
pdfplumber vs PyPDF2
pdf-tools vs dwim-shell-command
pdfplumber vs OCRmyPDF
pdf-tools vs homebrew-emacs-plus
pdfplumber vs pdfminer.six
pdf-tools vs homebrew-emacsmacport
pdfplumber vs py-pdf-parser
pdf-tools vs qpdf.el
pdfplumber vs PyMuPDF
pdf-tools vs pdf-tools