Top 23 Specific Formats Processing Open-Source Projects

• PyPDF2

  30 7,466 9.5 Python

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

  

Project mention: Yara scanning PDF files | /r/computerforensics | 2023-06-01

• WeasyPrint

  43 6,658 9.5 Python

  The awesome document factory

  

Project mention: Launch HN: Onedoc (YC W24) – A better way to create PDFs | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-11

Is there a reason you didn't consider something like Weasyprint?

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I've gone through a number of systems to convert CV's, business cards, and other docs and it hasn't let me down yet.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• csvkit

  9 5,829 8.6 Python

  A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.

  

• PDFMiner

  6 5,179 0.0 Python

  Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.

• tablib

  2 4,533 7.3 Python

  Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.

  

• python-docx

  6 4,222 8.0 Python

  Create and modify Word documents with Python

  

Project mention: What Would Go in Your Dream Documentation Solution? | /r/technicalwriting | 2023-12-09

So, what I'd like to do is write a documentation package in Python to recreate what I've lost. I plan to build upon the fantastic python-docx and docxtpl packages, and I'll probably rely on pandas from much of the tabular stuff. Here are the features I intend to include:

• PyMuPDF

  5 4,103 9.8 Python

  PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

  

Project mention: FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023 | dev.to | 2023-12-04

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• Python-Markdown

  15 3,593 7.8 Python

  A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.

  

• XlsxWriter

  11 3,499 7.9 Python

  A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files.

• borb

  66 3,296 5.2 Python

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

• xlwings

  25 2,848 8.4 Python

  xlwings is a Python library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa. It works with Excel on Windows and macOS as well as with Google Sheets and Excel on the web.

  

Project mention: Python in Excel: Combining the Power of Python and the Flexibility of Excel | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-23

Reading the headline, I initially thought that Microsoft bought the company behind XLWings [1], which also enables you to use Excel directly within Excel, even locally. Not affiliated in any kind to that company, just used it in the past.

[1] https://www.xlwings.org/

• Camelot

  10 2,669 6.6 Python

  A Python library to extract tabular data from PDFs

  

Project mention: Show HN: How do you OCR on a Mac using the CLI or just Python for free | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-02

I had good repeated success extracting tables from PDFs using Camelot (Python, https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot)

• markdown2

  5 2,588 8.6 Python

  markdown2: A fast and complete implementation of Markdown in Python

• unoconv

  3 2,514 0.0 Python

  Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.

  

• Mistune

  1 2,456 5.1 Python

  A fast yet powerful Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins.

• python-pptx

  2 2,179 5.8 Python

  Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python

• pdftabextract

  0 2,152 0.0 Python

  A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.

  

• docxtpl

  3 1,871 4.2 Python

  Use a docx as a jinja2 template

• pyexcel

  1 1,173 0.0 Python

  Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files

  

Project mention: Advice on ETL and Data Sharing work process | /r/ETL | 2023-11-07

You could try and write some simple python using the pyexcel and pandas libraries. I created a tool as a consultant with these packages that parsed spreadsheets with data from factories from all around the world. They did not lock down the Excel files used to submit data and it made it so much harder. If you go this route, I would recommend starting by putting your data into a SQLite database. Once you have your data in a database, you unlock the power of SQL for pulling reports. Also, you can port the data into a proper database if you ever need to. ChatGPT can probably get you a good chunk of the way there.

• pymorphy2

  1 1,101 0.0 Python

  Morphological analyzer / inflection engine for Russian and Ukrainian languages.

  

Project mention: Determine russian sentence parts. | /r/russian | 2023-05-11

• mistletoe

  2 754 7.2 Python

  A fast, extensible and spec-compliant Markdown parser in pure Python.

• unp

  3 416 0.0 Python

  Unpacks things.

• vcspull

  0 203 9.3 Python

  🔄 Synchronize projects via yaml/json manifest. Built using `libvcs`.

  

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• What Would Go in Your Dream Documentation Solution?

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• FLaNK Stack for 04 December 2023

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