Top 23 Python PDF Projects
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Project mention: Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-01-25
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
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Project mention: QuestPDF 2021.10 - a new version of the open-source, MIT-licensed, C# library for generating PDF documents with fluent API, now with extended text capabilities. Please help me make it popular :) | reddit.com/r/csharp | 2021-10-06
I’d recommend Weasyprint (.net core wrapper) instead of wkhtmltopdf. It supports CSS Paged Media which is pretty much required for everything but the simplest of HTML2PDF conversions.
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Scout APM
Less time debugging, more time building. Scout APM allows you to find and fix performance issues with no hassle. Now with error monitoring and external services monitoring, Scout is a developer's best friend when it comes to application development.
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Project mention: Desktop File Search, How does it work! python or C# library libraries? | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2021-09-12
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Project mention: How do I get python to read .pdf's in a directory? | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-01-18
I've had some success reading/writing PDFs using this library. Not sure if it will help you, but it's worth a shot.
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Project mention: Completely crazy tables when transforming table from PDF file to CSV | reddit.com/r/Python | 2022-01-27
Having said that, I've had pretty decent luck with PDFMiner.six (github link) for various extractions. Sometimes PDFs are decently structured HTML under the hood as well, so you might look into dumping the PDF to HTML, then parsing it with an HTML library like LXML or use Python's HTML.parser as part of the standard Python library (assuming the structured HTML is actually functional; can check by dumping the PDF to an .html document and opening it in a web browser.)
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Get borb from source on GitHub, or download using PyPi.
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pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
Project mention: How to search a PDF file for text matching keywords | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-01-14 -
OPS
OPS - Build and Run Open Source Unikernels. Quickly and easily build and deploy open source unikernels in tens of seconds. Deploy in any language to any cloud.
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pdftabextract
A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
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Project mention: Completely crazy tables when transforming table from PDF file to CSV | reddit.com/r/Python | 2022-01-27
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There also are https://docspell.org/ and https://www.papermerge.com/ if it has to be a server or multi user.
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Project mention: Need help with indexing pdf tables in python | reddit.com/r/programminghelp | 2021-12-12
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malicious-pdf
Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh
Project mention: Malicious PDF Generator: Utilizado para pruebas de penetración y/o #redteaming 🐱🏍 | reddit.com/r/u_esgeeks | 2021-09-04 -
pdfarranger
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split pdf documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface
Project mention: How to copy/paste or export columned text with proper formatting? | reddit.com/r/pdf | 2022-01-17 -
There's no official code audit or something like that for pdf2image. However, the GitHub repository for py2pdf has over 700 stars, incidcating a significant community activity. Chances are good somebody would notice if the author did something fishy.
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Project mention: Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-01-25
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
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For your reference, here's an arXiv API crawler: https://github.com/lukasschwab/arxiv.py
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Latex online use a script that is available to download and use offline, see the doc here : https://github.com/aslushnikov/latex-online#installation
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Project mention: New Release for fpdf2: vector drawing API & SVG embedding | reddit.com/r/pythonnews | 2022-01-23
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Project mention: Hosted SAAS Basic ElasticSearch or SOLR Options? | reddit.com/r/devops | 2022-01-19
Are you sure you don't need a document management system like Mayan EDMS?
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stapler
A small utility making use of the pypdf library to provide a (somewhat) lighter alternative to pdftk
In UI you can cut pages from one document and pasted those pages into another document. Afterwards you can sort/reorder pages. Up until version 2.0 Papermerge was using pdftk for "cut" and "paste" operations. Because of pdftk licensing (plus its dependency on java) - it was replaced by stapler which is pure python equivalent of pdftk. Stapler is BSD licensed.
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Python PDF related posts
- Completely crazy tables when transforming table from PDF file to CSV
- Recovering redacted information from pixelated videos
- New Release for fpdf2: vector drawing API & SVG embedding
- How do I get python to read .pdf's in a directory?
- pet/summoning recommendations
- How to copy/paste or export columned text with proper formatting?
- ocrmypdf / file not found error?
Index
What are some of the best open-source PDF projects in Python? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OCRmyPDF | 5,835 |
| 2 | WeasyPrint | 4,748 |
| 3 | PDFMiner | 4,726 |
| 4 | PyPDF2 | 3,994 |
| 5 | pdfminer.six | 3,345 |
| 6 | borb | 2,492 |
| 7 | pdfplumber | 2,418 |
| 8 | pdftabextract | 1,968 |
| 9 | tabula-py | 1,545 |
| 10 | Papermerge | 1,461 |
| 11 | Camelot | 1,395 |
| 12 | malicious-pdf | 1,193 |
| 13 | pdfarranger | 1,180 |
| 14 | pdf2image | 915 |
| 15 | pikepdf | 894 |
| 16 | CairoSVG | 538 |
| 17 | arxiv.py | 498 |
| 18 | rst2pdf | 454 |
| 19 | latex-online | 406 |
| 20 | fpdf2 | 332 |
| 21 | Mayan EDMS | 309 |
| 22 | stapler | 254 |
| 23 | Zydra | 251 |
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