pdf

Name: pdf
Rating: 5 (289 reviews)
Author: jimmc414

"PDF manipulation toolkit. Extract text/tables, create PDFs, merge/split, fill forms, for programmatic document processing and analysis."

TL;DR

Toolkit for PDF manipulation: extract text/tables, create/merge/split PDFs, fill forms.

What Is It

Extract text and tables from PDFs
Merge, split, and rotate PDF pages
Create new PDFs programmatically
Fill forms and add watermarks

Key Features

Extract text and tables with layout preservation
Merge and split PDFs via code or CLI
Rotate pages and apply metadata
Generate new PDFs with reportlab
Support for password protection and OCR on scanned PDFs
CLI tools for advanced operations

How to Use

1.Install required libraries: pypdf, pdfplumber, reportlab
2.Use pypdf for basic operations: read, merge, split, rotate
3.Use pdfplumber for text and table extraction with pandas
4.Use reportlab to create new PDFs with text and layout
5.Use CLI tools (pdftotext, qpdf, pdftk) for batch operations
6.Apply OCR with pytesseract for scanned PDFs

Guardrails & Gotchas

MUST use password protection only on encrypted files
FORBIDDEN: do not modify original files directly
CRITICAL: validate PDF structure before extracting tables
MUST handle exceptions when reading corrupted PDFs

GitHub Stats

Author

@jimmc414

Repository

jimmc414/Kosmos

Stars

289

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