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Top 23 Python PDF Projects
- Project mention: Show HN: MarkdownConverters – Convert any file format to clean Markdown | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-10-20
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MinerU
Transforms complex documents like PDFs into LLM-ready markdown/JSON for your Agentic workflows.
Project mention: Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-11-24cool UI and lets anyone upload a doc. but lacks https://github.com/opendatalab/mineru
- Project mention: Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-18
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paperless-ngx
A community-supported supercharged document management system: scan, index and archive all your documents
Borg Backup - I use it to automatically back up my main hosted Docker services. I have publicly hosted instances of Immich, and Paperless-NGX using Docker containers. I periodically make a backup of their data folder using Borg and store it in a Borg repo. The advantage of storing the backups in a Borg repo is that it is a deduplicating archival program. So no matter how many backups you make, it will not take any extra space than the first backup, provided nothing has changed. If there is a change, only that changed chunk is backed up, just like git. Also, you can easily encrypt and/or compress while backing up. Restoring a backup is also as easy as running a single Borg command.
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h2ogpt
Private chat with local GPT with document, images, video, etc. 100% private, Apache 2.0. Supports oLLaMa, Mixtral, llama.cpp, and more. Demo: https://gpt.h2o.ai/ https://gpt-docs.h2o.ai/
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PyPDF2
A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
The following ResumeService extracts the content from a PDF using pypdf
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB – Built for High-Performance Time Series Workloads. InfluxDB 3 OSS is now GA. Transform, enrich, and act on time series data directly in the database. Automate critical tasks and eliminate the need to move data externally. Download now.
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pdfplumber
Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.
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PyMuPDF
PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
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MegaParse
File Parser optimised for LLM Ingestion with no loss 🧠 Parse PDFs, Docx, PPTx in a format that is ideal for LLMs.
Project mention: MegaParse: Your One-Stop Solution for Effortless Document Parsing | dev.to | 2025-02-23View the Project on GitHub
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pdfarranger
Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface.
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pdf-craft
PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.
Project mention: PDF Craft – Open-Source PDF to eBook Converter Powered by DeepSeek-OCR | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-12-21 -
malicious-pdf
💀 Generate a bunch of malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh
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text-extract-api
Document (PDF, Word, PPTX ...) extraction and parse API using state of the art modern OCRs + Ollama supported models. Anonymize documents. Remove PII. Convert any document or picture to structured JSON or Markdown
Project mention: PDF Extract API Using Ollama with Anonymization and PII Removal | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-07 -
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pdftabextract
A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python PDF discussion
Python PDF related posts
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PDF Craft – Open-Source PDF to eBook Converter Powered by DeepSeek-OCR
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Launch HN: Pulse (YC S24) – Production-grade unstructured document extraction
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Docling
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Show HN: OCR Arena – A playground for OCR models
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Testing the Unofficial Docling Hierarchical PDF Processor
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Stop Fighting PDF Forms: Automate Everything with PyPDFForm
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Show HN: My open-source project PdfDing is receiving a grant
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Index
What are some of the best open-source PDF projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | markitdown | 84,406 |
| 2 | MinerU | 50,750 |
| 3 | docling | 47,414 |
| 4 | paperless-ngx | 35,122 |
| 5 | OCRmyPDF | 32,049 |
| 6 | h2ogpt | 11,976 |
| 7 | PyPDF2 | 9,680 |
| 8 | pdfplumber | 9,347 |
| 9 | PyMuPDF | 8,710 |
| 10 | WeasyPrint | 8,459 |
| 11 | MegaParse | 7,249 |
| 12 | pdfminer.six | 6,832 |
| 13 | pdfarranger | 4,977 |
| 14 | pdf-craft | 4,101 |
| 15 | malicious-pdf | 3,559 |
| 16 | borb | 3,550 |
| 17 | Camelot | 3,550 |
| 18 | text-extract-api | 2,961 |
| 19 | Papermerge | 2,837 |
| 20 | pikepdf | 2,554 |
| 21 | xhtml2pdf | 2,363 |
| 22 | tabula-py | 2,302 |
| 23 | pdftabextract | 2,253 |
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