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Top 23 Python PDF Projects
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I don't know what's the best, but I've had good luck with the command line tool ocrmypdf. https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
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Project mention: QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-01-18
The Paged Media spec on counters and counter-resets paints implementations into a corner. They can't both comply with the spec and implement page count resets on page breaks. This has been a known issue with the spec since 2013[1][2] and been a thorn in implementations since.[3]
1: https://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Tracker/issues/334
2: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4760
3: https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/93#issuecomment-4...
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Sonar
Write Clean Python Code. Always.. Sonar helps you commit clean code every time. With over 225 unique rules to find Python bugs, code smells & vulnerabilities, Sonar finds the issues while you focus on the work.
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PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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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Project mention: Creating a python class for organizing courses I took in my education | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-10-15
Technically this information is on my transcript, so I will be trying to use pdfminer to extract that data if there is a way to use a class you recommend when using that code https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
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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: Extracting particular things from pdf program? | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2023-01-21To handle machine generated one, a possible package is pdfplumber.
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Project mention: Generating PDF from some sort of template (jinja2) with headers, footers, images, not just a printed HTML document. | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-10-28
Have you looked at borb? I’m not sure if it’s exactly what you need I found it useful when doing something similar to you
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InfluxDB
Build time-series-based applications quickly and at scale.. InfluxDB is the Time Series Platform where developers build real-time applications for analytics, IoT and cloud-native services. Easy to start, it is available in the cloud or on-premises.
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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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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: Generador de PDF malicioso para #pentesters y #redteaming ♦️ | reddit.com/r/u_esgeeks | 2022-08-11 -
Sounds like you want a Document Management System (DMS), something like Alfresco (Bitnami packaged app), PaperMerge, or OpenDocMan
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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.
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Project mention: Camelot: DeprecationError: PdfFileReader is deprecated and was removed in PyPDF2 3.0.0. Use PdfReader instead. | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-12-29
here is the corresponding bug report in git: https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/issues/339
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Project mention: What is the best way to extract tables from scanned pdf's? | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-11-10
I haven't tried myself but https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py worked okay for some people
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pikepdf – A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by qpdf
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Project mention: How to dynamically generate graphics and PDFs using Python an jinja | dev.to | 2023-01-08
cairosvg: Provides the SVG-to-PDF Converter
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Project mention: New fpdf2 release - 2.6.1 - PDF encryption - skewing - markdown hyperlinks - Python 3.11 | reddit.com/r/pythonnews | 2023-01-13
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Project mention: Converting multiple docx to multiple txt filed | reddit.com/r/learnpython | 2022-11-07
Use Pypandoc
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I use Overleaf for everything Latex/Beamer related, and backup my projects onto Github. There used to be a website (https://latexonline.cc/) which would generate a static link for you that would compile a PDF from a specified github repository. It was a great way to share developing presentations and reports.
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Project mention: Hermes, an Open Source Document Management System | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-01-31
There's also Mayan EDMS [1]. I have no experience with it, but looks sensible from the outside.
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pdfsyntax
A Python PDF parsing library and tool built on top to browse the internal structure of a PDF file
Project mention: Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files | reddit.com/r/patient_hackernews | 2022-11-19 -
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2023-01-31.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source PDF projects in Python? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | OCRmyPDF | 8,056 |
| 2 | WeasyPrint | 5,442 |
| 3 | PyPDF2 | 5,123 |
| 4 | PDFMiner | 4,939 |
| 5 | pdfminer.six | 4,112 |
| 6 | pdfplumber | 3,383 |
| 7 | borb | 2,897 |
| 8 | pdftabextract | 2,037 |
| 9 | malicious-pdf | 1,924 |
| 10 | Papermerge | 1,865 |
| 11 | pdfarranger | 1,838 |
| 12 | Camelot | 1,793 |
| 13 | tabula-py | 1,755 |
| 14 | pikepdf | 1,636 |
| 15 | pdf2image | 1,155 |
| 16 | CairoSVG | 616 |
| 17 | fpdf2 | 602 |
| 18 | arxiv.py | 602 |
| 19 | pypandoc | 567 |
| 20 | rst2pdf | 490 |
| 21 | latex-online | 456 |
| 22 | Mayan EDMS | 409 |
| 23 | pdfsyntax | 396 |
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