jalan/pdftotext
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Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 89
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
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: n/a
- age_days: 3421
- days_rel: 635
- days_push: 67
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
1065 stars · 112 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
pdftotext is a Python library for simple PDF text extraction, built as a binding around the Poppler C++ library. It supports reading text page-by-page or as a whole, including password-protected PDFs.
Use cases
- extract text from pdf files in python
- parse pdf documents into plain text
- read individual pages from a pdf
- extract text from password-protected pdfs
- convert pdf content to strings for indexing
When to choose
- you need fast, simple PDF text extraction in Python
- you can install native Poppler dependencies
- you want a minimal API for page-wise text access
When to avoid
- you need layout-aware or structured PDF parsing
- you cannot install native C++ dependencies like poppler-cpp
- you need a project actively developed on GitHub (it has moved to SourceHut)
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
pdf parser ocr pdf files developer-tools python windows cross-platform pdf-text-extraction poppler python-binding linux macos
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext · fetched 2026-08-28 · bdde0596b4af
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| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
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| jalan/pdftotext | main | 10 |
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