pikepdf VS PyPDF2

Compare pikepdf vs PyPDF2 and see what are their differences.

PyPDF2

A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2] (by mstamy2)
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pikepdf PyPDF2
4 1
2,019 4,162
1.7% -
9.5 8.9
9 days ago about 2 years ago
Python Python
Mozilla Public License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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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

PyPDF2

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Create PDF from a list of images
    1 project | /r/codehunter | 12 Apr 2022
    use PDF::FromImage;...my $pdf = PDF::FromImage->new;$pdf->load_images(@allPagesDir);$pdf->write_file($bookName . '.pdf'); I need to do something very similar to this, but in Python. I know the pyPdf module, but I would like something simple.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pikepdf and PyPDF2 you can also consider the following projects:

fpdf2 - Simple PDF generation for Python

pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

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

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched [Moved to: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF]

qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

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

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

WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory

python-anvil - Python library and CLI for the Anvil API