Comparision of pdfplumber with related libraries

MartinThoma commented 4 years ago

The PDF tooling world is huge. For a beginner it is hard to tell which library to use. It would be nice to have a comparison.

pdfplumber is built on top of pdfminer.six. What are examples of core features pdfplumber adds?
There is also pymupdf which seems to have a similar feature set and it's just way faster.
There are a couple of other Python libraries which seem not to be maintained: PyPDF2, PyPDF3, PyPDF4, lapdf
And more: pikepdf, pdfrw
And some specialized on tables: Camelot, pdftables, pdftables.six

Is it possible to combine tools, e.g. use logic from camelot to recognize tables and create a HTML output which has semantic HTML tables instead of absolutely positioned cells? (related question on Stackoverflow)

MartinThoma commented 4 years ago

Thank you so much! I think once this PR is merged, this issue can be closed :-)

jsvine commented 4 years ago

Thanks @MartinThoma, I thought that was a great idea. I've added a brief comparison, as you can see, and will close this issue. But if there are any lingering questions about the differences, don't hesitate to add a comment here.

jsvine / pdfplumber

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