Is slate dead? What is an alternative?

timClicks / slate

The simplest way to extract text from PDFs in Python

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Is slate dead? What is an alternative? #51

Open MartinThoma opened 4 years ago

MartinThoma commented 4 years ago

Hi Tim, as the last commit was in 2017, I assume slate is dead. Maybe you can set the development status to Development Status :: 7 - Inactive?

Which libraries would you recommend for reading PDF files?

zoldaten commented 3 years ago

Why dead ? Everything works. Just try this way: with open('example.pdf','rb') as f: doc = slate.PDF(f)

If you have error with import utils - just install it - pip install utils

MartinThoma commented 3 years ago

Dead in the sense that no development / maintenance happens. The fact that it took a year to get an answer speaks for itself.

gabema commented 2 years ago

A lot of this would be fixed by PR #53

MartinThoma commented 2 years ago

In the meantime I became the maintainer of PyPDF2. I can recommend to use PyPDF2 as we cover many use cases, have a large user base and some very active contributors

violet4 commented 2 months ago

i finally went reviewing all my old issues and PRs and saw i had a PR here from 6 years ago. i just closed it because i imagine it won't ever get merged and i don't want to see 50-year old PRs when i'm 70 :)