# jsvine/pdfplumber

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

Repository: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pdfplumber
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pdf, pdf-parsing, table-extraction
Last push: 2026-08-06T00:46:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 90/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 77, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4027, "days_push": 28, "days_rel": 79, "gap_med": 85, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 10697, forks 916 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:43.802302+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: parser, pdf, ocr, data-science, cli
- domain: pdf, files, data-science, developer-tools
- platform: python, cli, cross-platform
- tags: pdf-parsing, table-extraction, pdfminer, text-extraction, visual-debugging

## Member repositories
- jsvine/pdfplumber (main) score 90

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:43.802302+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:17:58.152128+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:43.802302+00:00, sha 21c16ca6ef7a)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pdfplumber/json (fetched 2026-08-29T08:17:04.779543+00:00, sha 4f88dca7af1c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.