pikepdf vs PyWebIO

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pikepdf		PyWebIO
	Project
4	Mentions	24
2,019	Stars	4,322
1.7%	Growth	1.1%
9.5	Activity	6.1
3 days ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Python	Language	Python
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

pikepdf

Posts with mentions or reviews of pikepdf. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-17.

This Week in Python
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2022

pikepdf – A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by qpdf
Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jan 2022

Not off the shelf but here are some tools. I have no experience with them.
Wolf binarization - I think it makes the text more clear before OCR.
https://github.com/chriswolfvision/local_adaptive_binarizati...
This thing OCRs the pdf using Tesseract OCR
https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF/
Two other pdf tools
https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf
https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf
Show HN: Pystitcher – A Declarative Alternative to Pdftk
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Dec 2021

i recently transitioned a large PDF processing pipeline[1] away from PyPDF3 to use the pikepdf[2] library instead. pikepdf is based on the C++ `qpdf` library, and this switch has cut the necessary special-case manual checking + error handling in half compared to pypdf for these sorts of tasks.
[1]: i'm helping out with the CV Open Access archive, https://openaccess.thecvf.com/menu. broadly, our pipeline needs to ingest tons of author-provided PDFs of varying quality and output a canonical PDF with corrected page numbers, proper metadata, and a banner stamped on the first page. it's a lot of work, and it's not uncommon for pypdf to simply fail for slightly invalid input or give garbled results. this isn't optimal since we can't review 2,000 papers per conference release lol. pypdf has been nice, but pikepdf has handled everything i've thrown at it.
[2] https://pikepdf.readthedocs.io
a collection of pdf-files (copy of a book ) in disorder: solfing wiht pikepdf
1 project | /r/learnpython | 2 Jun 2021

PyWebIO

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyWebIO. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

PyWebIO VS streamsync - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 11 Jul 2023
Nice GUI
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2022

To write web gui in Python, there are some other open source alternatives.
If just want to port simple shell interactive interface to web gui, can check https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO
If want to get a production level dashboard by using Python, https://wave.h2o.ai/ <>
This Week in Python
5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jun 2022

PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way
GitHub - pywebio/PyWebIO: Write interactive web app in script way.
1 project | /r/Python | 12 Jun 2022
PyWebIO: Retool for Python
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jun 2022
Turning Script Into A Website
2 projects | /r/Python | 22 Feb 2022

https://github.com/pywebio/PyWebIO is worth checking out, there's a demo page on data visualisation at https://pywebio-charts.pywebio.online/ that you could maybe grab code from to get you there quicker.
We developed a Wordle-like web game, called Pordle, for you to learn Python, one package a day (game source code included)
2 projects | /r/Python | 17 Feb 2022

Here is PyWebIO documentation if you'd like to dig deeper: https://pywebio.readthedocs.io/
PyWebIO VS idom - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 8 Feb 2022
Simple Web Apps quickly made in Python
2 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2022

Document is on https://pywebio.readthedocs.io
Pglet – Web UI framework for back end developers
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Nov 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pikepdf and PyWebIO you can also consider the following projects:

fpdf2 - Simple PDF generation for Python

streamlit - Streamlit — A faster way to build and share data apps.

borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

django-unicorn - The magical reactive component framework for Django ✨

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

Flask-Meld - Flask-Meld is a library to provide server rendered templates over websockets for Flask applications to build reactive components without Javascript

qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer

dash - Data Apps & Dashboards for Python. No JavaScript Required.

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

remi - Python REMote Interface library. Platform independent. In about 100 Kbytes, perfect for your diet.

malicious-pdf - 💀 Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh

PySimpleGUI - Python GUIs for Humans! PySimpleGUI is the top-rated Python application development environment. Launched in 2018 and actively developed, maintained, and supported in 2024. Transforms tkinter, Qt, WxPython, and Remi into a simple, intuitive, and fun experience for both hobbyists and expert users.