pdftotext VS pdfminer.six

Compare pdftotext vs pdfminer.six and see what are their differences.

pdftotext

Simple PDF text extraction (by jalan)

pdfminer.six

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF (by pdfminer)
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pdftotext pdfminer.six
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824 5,501
- 2.9%
2.7 6.8
15 days ago about 1 month ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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pdftotext

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  • Is it possible (and how) to extract highlighted text from a PDF (via API)?
    1 project | /r/CSEducation | 8 Dec 2023
    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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pdftotext and pdfminer.six you can also consider the following projects:

PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files

PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.

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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

PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2]

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

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anvil-parser - A Minecraft anvil file format parser

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textract-cli - CLI utility for using AWS Textract DetectDocumentText to OCR image files in synchronous mode without uploading to S3.