pdftotext
PyPDF2
| pdftotext | PyPDF2 | |
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| 1 | 30 | |
| 824 | 7,512 | |
| - | 3.5% | |
| 2.7 | 9.5 | |
| 15 days ago | 7 days ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-Clause |
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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.
PyPDF2
- Yara scanning PDF files
- I need help install PyPDF2 library on my computer
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How to convert SVGs containing text to a PDF?
I still haven't needed to do that part in Rust yet, unfortunately. My mother is still using the pypdf-based concatenator I wrote for her years ago.
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Recommendations for parsing text from .pdf files
I did an extremely quick search and am linking this without knowing anything about it.
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Learning programming from the beginning to extract data from PDFs?
Pretty much study Python until this Github repo'd Readme makes sense!: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2
- Is there a GUI for PyPDF2?
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Any good tutorials for working with pdfs in Rust?
As other posters have said, if you're just generating PDFs, that's doable with minor library support. If you want to open existing PDFs and do anything non-trivial with them, you'll want a mature, powerful PDF parsing library. PDFKit, which is part of macOS is pretty amazing. If you need portability, something like Python's PyPDF2 is probably the best bet. Knowing the Rust community, though, we'll probably get a library at least as good in Rust in a surprisingly short amount of time.
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PyPDF4 merger not merging pdf's - what am I doing wrong?
Why are you using PyPDF4 which seems to have no active maintainer and no documentation instead of PyPDF2 which has both?
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Print View
one of many options
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The Pdfalyzer is a tool for visualizing the inner tree structure of a PDF in large and colorful diagrams as well as scanning its internals for suspicious content
Feel free. I poked around the PyPDF2 code and it seems like reading signatures is something it supports via xfa_form property (GitHub issue where this was discussed; seems to have been closed v. recently) . would probably be a very simple PR provided you knew where to look for that property.
What are some alternatives?
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
ReportLab
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
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
textract - extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
pymorphy2 - Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
PyPDF4 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.