pdfquery VS annotated-pdf-spec

Compare pdfquery vs annotated-pdf-spec and see what are their differences.

pdfquery

A fast and friendly PDF scraping library. (by jcushman)

annotated-pdf-spec

Collection of useful hints for implementing a PDF library (by gettalong)
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pdfquery

Posts with mentions or reviews of pdfquery. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.

annotated-pdf-spec

Posts with mentions or reviews of annotated-pdf-spec. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-17.
  • Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
    17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022
    As others have already written, there are many slightly invalid PDF files out there in the wild that many readers can display mostly fine and which your library should also be able to handle.

    If you can, grab yourself a copy of the most recent PDF 2.0 specification since it contains much more information and is much more correct in terms of how to implement things. Also have a look at the errata at https://pdf-issues.pdfa.org/32000-2-2020/index.html.

    As I'm implementing a PDF library (in Ruby), I have started to collect some situations that arise in the wild but are not spec-compliant, see https://github.com/gettalong/annotated-pdf-spec. That might help you in parsing some invalid PDFs

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdfquery and annotated-pdf-spec you can also consider the following projects:

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

pdfsyntax - A Python library to inspect and modify the internal structure of a PDF file

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

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

i7j-rups - RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.

pdf-issues - Industry-based resolutions for issues and errata reported against any PDF-related specification

betterwrite - :bookmark_tabs: A Creative Word Processor.

djot - A light markup language

pandoc - Universal markup converter

kaitai_struct_formats - Kaitai Struct: library of binary file formats (.ksy)

mupdf - mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git