PyPDF2 VS pdftabextract

Compare PyPDF2 vs pdftabextract and see what are their differences.

PyPDF2

A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files (by py-pdf)

pdftabextract

A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents. (by WZBSocialScienceCenter)
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PyPDF2 pdftabextract
30 0
7,248 2,152
3.7% 1.1%
9.5 0.0
2 days ago almost 2 years ago
Python Python
BSD 3-Clause Apache License 2.0
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PyPDF2

Posts with mentions or reviews of PyPDF2. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-24.

pdftabextract

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

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

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.

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