pdfminer/pdfminer.six

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pdfminer.six is a community-maintained Python library for parsing and analyzing PDF documents, focused on extracting and analyzing text data including layout, fonts, and colors. It is written entirely in Python and offers both a Python API and a command-line tool (pdf2txt.py) for converting PDFs to text, HTML, or hOCR.

Use cases

• extract text from pdf files in python
• parse resumes from pdfs
• get font and position information of pdf text
• convert pdf documents to html or hocr
• extract embedded images from pdfs
• handle cjk and vertical writing text in pdfs
• extract text from encrypted pdfs

When to choose

• you need detailed text and layout analysis of PDFs in pure Python
• you need font, color, or exact position metadata for extracted text
• you need CJK/vertical writing or various font type support
• you want a modular parser you can extend with custom interpreters

When to avoid

• you need to create or edit PDFs rather than read them
• you need fast OCR of scanned documents (it parses text, not images)
• you need high-performance processing of very large PDF volumes
• you need a maintained-by-vendor solution with guaranteed support

Facets

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parser pdf ocr developer-tools pdf files developer-tools python cli cross-platform text-extraction layout-analysis pdf-parsing text-mining cjk-support natural-language-processing

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