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pdfplumber

pdfplumber is a Python library that allows you to get detailed information about each character, rectangle, and line in PDF files. Developed with pdfminer.six infrastructure, it supports text and table extraction and visual debugging. The best performance shows machine production PDF instead of scanned documents.

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jsvine · PDF & Document Processing

STARS10.9K
FORKS942
COMMITS0
CONTRIBUTORS0
VERSIONv0.11.10
UPDATED16 days ago
PythonPDFTablo ÇıkarmaMetin AnaliziMIT

Common commercial products in this category: Adobe Acrobat, ABBYY FineReader, Foxit PDF Editor

What can it do?
  • You can get detailed information about each text character, line and rectangle in PDF files.
  • You can extract PDF text and table using the command line interface or Python library.
  • With visual debugging features, you can analyze PDF content and process form values.
User reviews
  • • NeutralGitHub Issue

    command not found issue

    “Hi I just tried the command line: curl " > background-checks.pdf then: pdfplumber background-checks.csv ![Screen Shot 2020-09-14 at 11 59 19 AM]( but i got the "command not found: pdfplumber" while I already install the pdfplumber please see the attachment..”

  • ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue

    Incorrect extraction in tables with overlapping columns

    “This is a continuation of a discussion posted [here]( please check for more info. ## Describe the bug When the pdf has overlapping columns (i.e the columns do not wrap text), all extraction methods (extract_tables, extract_text, extract_words) give incorrect result. - When using…”

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