WARNING: This software is in its very early days, might not work well, and might change dramatically in future versions.

PDFPlumber

Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera.

Built on pdfminer/pdfminer.six.

Installation

pip install git+https://github.com/goulu/pdfminer#egg=pdfminer.six
pip install pdfplumber

Usage

import pdfplumber

pdf = pdfplumber.from_path("path/to/file.pdf")

# OR

with open("path/to/file.pdf") as f:
    pdf = pdfplumber.load(f)

print(pdf.chars)
print(pdf.rects)
print(pdf.lines)

Pandas Integration

By default, pdf.chars, etc., will be a plain Python dictionary. But if you pandas=True to pdfplumber.load/.from_file, you'll receive those properties as Pandas dataframes.

Python Support

Support for Python 3 is rough around the edges and largely dependent on the progress of pdfminer.six.

Feedback

Issues and pull requests welcome.