pdfminer.six 20240706

PDF parser and analyzer

Stars: 5877, Watchers: 5877, Forks: 928, Open Issues: 245

The pdfminer/pdfminer.six repo was created 10 years ago and the last code push was 2 months ago.
The project is extremely popular with a mindblowing 5877 github stars!

How to Install pdfminer-six

You can install pdfminer-six using pip

pip install pdfminer-six

or add it to a project with poetry

poetry add pdfminer-six

Package Details

Author

Yusuke Shinyama + Philippe Guglielmetti

License

MIT

Homepage

https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six

PyPi:

https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer.six/

GitHub Repo:

https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six

Classifiers

• Text Processing

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Errors

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Code Examples

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GitHub Issues

The pdfminer-six package has 245 open issues on GitHub

• Add extras_require in setup.py for PIL, and raise error if not installed when needing PIL
• encodingdb.name2unicode(name: str) -> str can't handle type1 font diff like: 2, /'MT110', /'MT50',…
• reading order is not quite right formultiple columns in one page
• Same sentence is printed three times for a specific PDF file when using pdf2txt
• extract images including their textual Figure number/title etc located below the image in a pdf. ie a margin around the image to be captured as well.
• extract heading and section headers from pdf…cant acheive this now
• Prefer logging to warning
• Fix regression in page layout that sometimes returned text lines out of order
• Text out of order with pdfminer 20201018
• getting lots of (cid:#) instead of readable text
• Question: Negative bbox coordinate (x1)
• split a multi-page pdf file into multiple pdf files
• list index out of range at self.cmap.add_cid2unichr(s1+i, code[i])

See more issues on GitHub