pdfreader 0.1.15

Description:

pdfreader 0.1.15

Info:
See the tutorials & documentation for more information.

Author & Maintainer:
Maksym Polshcha <[email protected]>


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 :-)