pdftotext
WeasyPrint
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| 1 | 43 | |
| 818 | 6,670 | |
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| 2.7 | 9.5 | |
| 12 days ago | 5 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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pdftotext
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Is it possible (and how) to extract highlighted text from a PDF (via API)?
I’ve used https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext for automated pdf text parsing before, but I wasn’t doing anything with highlighting and I’m not sure what the formatting for that looks like or if it would be simple or even present in the output of this library. You could give it a test run on one of your pdfs and see though. Best of luck; pdf text extraction is a nightmare, especially if they don’t all come from the exact same source and generation system, since they’re not really text documents.
WeasyPrint
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Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs
Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?
https://weasyprint.org
I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.
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CSS for Printing to Paper
You don't _have_ to use a browser. I had very good results with Weasyprint [0]. And there's also PrinceXML [1] if you're willing to pay.
[0]: https://weasyprint.org/
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Show HN: A new open-source library to design PDF using React
Thanks for your answer! I imagined you would be using PrinceXML behind the scenes since that is probably the gold standard in HTML+CSS rendering.
The only open source alternative I know of is WeasyPrint at https://weasyprint.org/. I'm not sure how well it fares against PrinceXML, though.
And thanks for the pointer to Taffy - I didn't know it before!
- 1.5M PDFs in 25 Minutes
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Htmldocs: Typeset and Generate PDFs with HTML/CSS
Flexbox support has been [included][1] since 2018, although my use case was the prototypical one - a single row w/ 3 columns - so YMMV with how it handles more complex layouts.
[1]: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/pull/579
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How to Simply Generate a PDF From HTML in Symfony With WeasyPrint
Performance is not the strength of WeasyPrint, meaning that heavy HTML files will increase generation time. You should always compress images before attaching them, as they are not compressed by default. Generating a 50-page-long PDF may take up to a minute in extreme cases, although multi-page documents generated on my project take fewer than 2 seconds to generate.
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Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An Open Source App to Create PDF Invoices for Free
For Python there is Weasyprint: you prepare the invoice as an HTML document, and Weasyprint turns it into a PDF
https://weasyprint.org/
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The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person (curl dev)
Well yes, but you can implement HTML+CSS. WeasyPrint did from scratch, and independent implementations of HTML+CSS are considerably more numerous than HTML+CSS+JS.
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Library to convert HTML to pdf in Golang
In a recent project I used https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/ it is written in python, so you will need to use it like so:
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RE: If you had to pick a library from another language (Rust, JS, etc.) that isn’t currently available in Python and have it instantly converted into Python for you to use, what would it be?
You should maybe check out weasyprint. https://weasyprint.org/
What are some alternatives?
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
ReportLab
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
QuestPDF - QuestPDF is a modern open-source .NET library for PDF document generation. Offering comprehensive layout engine powered by concise and discoverable C# Fluent API. Easily generate PDF reports, invoices, exports, etc.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
MathJax - Beautiful and accessible math in all browsers
pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
pandoc - Universal markup converter