pdfreader

See GitHub for the latest source.

About

pdfreader is a Pythonic API for:

• extracting texts, images and other data from PDF documents (plain or protected)
• accessing different objects within PDF documents

pdfreader is NOT a tool (maybe one day it become!):

• to create or update PDF files
• to split PDF files into pages or other pieces
• convert PDFs to any other format

Nevertheless it can be used as a part of such tools.

See Tutorials & Documentation.

Features

• Extracts texts (plain text and formatted text objects)
• Extract PDF forms data (pure strings and formatted text objects)
• Supports all PDF encodings, CMap, predefined cmaps.
• Extracts images and image masks as Pillow/PIL Images
• Supports encrypted and password-protected PDF documents
• Allows browse any document objects, resources and extract any data you need (fonts, annotations, metadata, multimedia, etc.)
• Follows PDF-1.7 specification
• Lazy objects access allows to process huge PDF documents quite fast

Installation

pdfreader can be installed with pip:

$ python -m pip install pdfreader

Or easy_install from setuptools:

$ python -m easy_install pdfreader

You can also download the project source and do:

$ python setup.py install

Tutorial and Documentation

Tutorial, real-life examples and documentation

Support, Bugs & Feature Requests

pdfreader uses GitHub issues to keep track of bugs, feature requests, etc.

Related Projects

• pdfminer
• pyPdf2
• xpdf
• pdfbox
• mupdf

References

• Document management - Potable document format - PDF 1.7
• Adobe CMap and CIDFont Files Specification
• PostScript Language Reference Manual
• Adobe CMap resources
• Adobe glyph list specification (AGL)

Donation

If this project is helpful, you can treat me to coffee :-)