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    jsvine/pdfplumber

    Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

    backend
    pdf
    pdf-parsing
    table-extraction
    Python
    MIT
    10.9K stars
    951 forks
    103 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 9, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 147 days ago, with 37 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Extract detailed information from PDFs including characters, lines, rectangles, and tables using Python.
    • Provides precise, low-level access to PDF elements with visual debugging and table extraction capabilities.
    • Use for extracting structured tables from machine-generated PDFs for data analysis workflows.
    • Use for programmatically accessing text layout and character-level metadata in PDFs for custom text processing.
    • Ideal for visually debugging PDF layouts and verifying extraction accuracy with annotated images.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

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    From the README

    Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each text character, rectangle, and line. Plus: Table extraction and visual debugging.

    Works best on machine-generated, rather than scanned, PDFs. Built on pdfminer.six.

    Translations of this document are available in: Chinese (by @hbh112233abc).

    To report a bug or request a feature, please file an issue. To ask a question or request assistance with a specific PDF, please use the discussions forum.

    Excerpt from the jsvine/pdfplumber README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    951+41

    Open issues

    135+40

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