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pyxpdf

pyxpdf is a fast and memory efficient python module for parsing PDF documents based on xpdf reader sources.

docs Read the Docs
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package PyPI PyPI - Python Version PyPI - Wheel PyPI - Downloads
license GitHub

Features

  • Almost x20 times faster than pure python based pdf parsers (see Speed Comparison)
  • Extract text while maintaining original document layout (best possible)
  • Support almost all PDF encodings, CMaps and predefined CMaps.
  • Extract LZW, RLE, CCITTFax, DCT, JBIG2 and JPX compressed images and image masks along with their BBox.
  • Render PDF Pages as image with support of '1', 'L', 'LA', 'RGB', 'RGBA' and 'CMYK' color modes.
  • No explict dependencies (except optional ones, see Installation)
  • Thread Safe

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License

pyxpdf is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or 3. See the LICENSE

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