PyMuPDF

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PyMuPDF is a high-performance Python library built on the MuPDF C engine for extracting, analyzing, converting, rendering, and manipulating PDF and other document formats. Its companion package pymupdf4llm provides utilities for converting documents into LLM/RAG-friendly output like Markdown.

Use cases

• extract text from pdf files in python
• convert pdfs to markdown for llm and rag pipelines
• extract tables from pdf documents
• perform ocr on scanned pdfs with tesseract
• render pdf pages to images
• manipulate and annotate pdf documents programmatically

When to choose

• you need fast, dependency-light PDF text and image extraction in Python
• you are building document ingestion pipelines for LLMs or RAG systems
• you need table extraction, OCR, or page rendering from PDFs
• you need low-level control over PDF structure alongside high-level APIs

When to avoid

• your project cannot accept AGPL-3.0 licensing and you cannot buy a commercial license
• you only need to create simple PDFs from scratch rather than process existing documents
• you need a pure-Python solution without a compiled C engine

Facets

library · maturity stable

pdf ocr parser image-processing nlp pdf files data-science developer-tools python cross-platform mupdf text-extraction table-extraction llm-rag document-conversion epub xps natural-language-processing

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