pyxpdf

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 <https://pyxpdf.readthedocs.io/>_

  • Installation_
  • Quickstart <https://pyxpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#quick-start>_

• Contribute <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md>_

  • Build <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf/blob/master/BUILD.rst>_
  • Issues <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf/issues>_
  • Pull requests <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf/pulls>_

• Speed Comparison_

• Changelog <https://pyxpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html>_

License

pyxpdf is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 3. See the LICENSE <https://github.com/ashutoshvarma/pyxpdf/blob/master/LICENSE>_

Credits

• xpdf reader <https://www.xpdfreader.com/>_ by Derek Noonburg
• lxml <https://www.github.com/lxml/lxml>_ - project structure and build adapted from lxml
• poppler <https://poppler.freedesktop.org/>_ project

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