PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files (by py-pdf)
PyPDF4
A utility to read and write PDFs with Python (by claird)
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| PyPDF2 | PyPDF4 | |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | 5 | |
| 7,359 | 321 | |
| 3.6% | - | |
| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 2 days ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Python | Python | |
| BSD 3-Clause | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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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.
PyPDF2
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF2.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.
- 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.
PyPDF4
Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF4.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-15.
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How do I transform many pdfs into text?
There's also a PyPDF4 ... https://github.com/claird/PyPDF4 ...
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Move links in .pdf to spreadsheet, on password protected .pdf
I looked through PyPDF4 (https://github.com/claird/PyPDF4) and tried to decode a pdf on osx but found that PyPDF4 supports decryption for algorithms 1 or 2 however OSX PDF encryption only writes encrypted pdfs with algorithm 4. So basically, I don't have a tool readily available to create a starting encrypted pdf that could be decrypted by PyPDF4.
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Minimalistic writing app like focuswriter with pdf export
I'm not a python expert, but I've heard good things about PyQT. You might want to check it out. You can then use PyPDF to read/write PDF files.
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Markdown to PDF: missing pieces from various approaches, and beyond HTML
PyPDF2 - Python (there seems to be up to PyPDF4, now)
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Python PDF Generation from HTML with WeasyPrint
While there are numerous ways to handle PDF documents with Python, I find generating or editing HTML far easier and more reliable than trying to figure out the intricacies of the PDF format. Sure, there is the venerable ReportLab, and if HTML is not your cup of tea, I encourage you to look into that option. There is also PyPDF2. Or maybe PyPDF3? No, perhaps PyPDF4! Hmmm... see the problem? My best guess is PyPDF3, for what that is worth.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing PyPDF2 and PyPDF4 you can also consider the following projects:
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
pdf-lib - Create and modify PDF documents in any JavaScript environment
ReportLab
pyweasyprintdemo
pdfplumber - Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
markdown-preview-enhanced - One of the 'BEST' markdown preview extensions for Atom editor!
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory
qpdf - QPDF: A content-preserving PDF document transformer
Camelot - A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs
puppeteer - Node.js API for Chrome
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
sciter-pdf - Sciter binding for libharu pdf library.