pyxpdf

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

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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

More Information

• Documentation
  • Installation
  • Quickstart
• Contribute
  • Build
  • Issues
  • Pull requests
• Speed Comparison
• Changelog

License

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

Credits

• xpdf reader by Derek Noonburg
• lxml - project structure and build adapted from lxml
• poppler project