pdfquery vs kaitai_struct_formats

pdfquery

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

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kaitai_struct_formats

Kaitai Struct: library of binary file formats (.ksy) (by kaitai-io)

kaitai-struct file-format protocol-parser

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pdfquery		kaitai_struct_formats
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3	Mentions	3
753	Stars	682
-	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	6.3
7 months ago	Latest Commit	17 days ago
Python	Language	Kaitai Struct
MIT License	License	-

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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.

Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022

That makes sense, as "pdfquery" uses pdfminer.six as a dep: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery/blob/master/requirement...
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2 projects | /r/Chennai | 29 Jun 2021

Source: Scraped death certificates from GCC website. Scraped the PDFs using pdfquery library for python (shout out to techies Madhan and Atom for helping me get started and fixing code whenever I got stuck.

kaitai_struct_formats

Posts with mentions or reviews of kaitai_struct_formats. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-15.

Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification
15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
Fq: Jq for Binary Formats
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023

Kaitai has a repository of binary formats[1] that can be used in visualizers or to auto-generate parsers.
[1] https://formats.kaitai.io/
Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2022

This is tangential to your submission, but PDF is the file format I use for exercising any library that claims to be a declarative file format (ala https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats#readme )

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdfquery and kaitai_struct_formats 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.

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

cutter - Free and Open Source Reverse Engineering Platform powered by rizin

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

jqjq - jq implementation of jq

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

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.

djot - A light markup language

bericht - Incremental HTML to PDF converter.

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