PyMuPDF is a high-performance Python library for extracting, analysing, converting, rendering, and manipulating PDF and other document formats.
It is built on the MuPDF rendering engine and provides both low-level control and high-level convenience APIs.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Opens PDF, XPS, EPUB, CBZ, MOBI, FB2, SVG, text, Markdown, and image files.
- Extracts plain and structured text with font, colour, position, and bounding-box information.
- Detects and extracts tables as Markdown or structured data.
- Extracts embedded images and vector graphics.
- Renders document pages as high-resolution images or pixmaps.
- Supports optical character recognition through Tesseract.
- Creates, merges, splits, reorders, inserts, and deletes PDF pages.
- Adds and reads annotations including highlights, notes, stamps, ink, and free text.
- Adds and permanently applies redactions.
- Reads and fills PDF form fields.
- Reads and writes links, bookmarks, metadata, and tables of contents.
- Supports password-protected documents and RC4 and AES encryption.
- Draws lines, curves, rectangles, and circles and inserts formatted HTML content.
- Has no mandatory external Python dependencies.
Website: github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF
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Developer: Artifex Software, Inc.
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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