pdfminer/pdfminer.six
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Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF observed · 2026-09-25
Health v2 · maintenance only
69/100
- Activity 64
- Release rhythm 57
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 7
- age_days: 4435
- days_rel: 286
- days_push: 221
- n_releases_24m: 10
Adoption not part of the score
7027 stars · 1039 forks observed · 2026-09-25
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
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
library · maturity active
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
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six · fetched 2026-09-25 · 90b4ac4d2adc
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pdfminer.six/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 404a37c3dbd1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| pdfminer/pdfminer.six | main | 69 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="pdfminer/pdfminer.six")
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