jsvine/pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
90/100
- Activity 96
- Release rhythm 77
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 85
- age_days: 4027
- days_rel: 79
- days_push: 28
- n_releases_24m: 6
Adoption not part of the score
10697 stars · 916 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs, including every character, line, rectangle, and table, built on pdfminer.six. It also provides a command-line interface and visual debugging tools for inspecting PDF structure.
Use cases
- extract tables from pdf files
- parse text out of a pdf in python
- get character and line positions from a pdf
- convert pdf pages to csv or json
- debug pdf layout visually
- extract form values from pdfs
When to choose
- you need fine-grained access to PDF objects like chars, rects, and lines
- you want to extract tables from machine-generated PDFs
- you prefer a Python library with a CLI and visual debugging
When to avoid
- your PDFs are scanned images requiring OCR
- you only need simple full-document text extraction with no layout detail
- you need a non-Python solution
Facets
library · maturity active
parser pdf ocr data-science cli pdf files data-science developer-tools python cli cross-platform pdf-parsing table-extraction pdfminer text-extraction visual-debugging
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber · fetched 2026-08-28 · 21c16ca6ef7a
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pdfplumber/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4f88dca7af1c
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| jsvine/pdfplumber | main | 90 |
For agents
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