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

10 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2016-03-24 · latest 2026-08-06

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    Plumb a PDF for detailed information
    story by saikatsg · 2026-08-06 · 1 comment
  2. …with Elixir's Phoenix framework and it is all hosted on Fly.io. [1] https://data-tools.fly.dev [2] https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
    comment by giovannibonetti · 2024-03-31 · in Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
  3. …Text: `A`, Save to file: `CTRL+SHIFT+S` - it is much faster than Adobe Acrobat - [pdfplumber](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber) - Awesome python package to extract tables from PDFs into data pipelines. Use with Jupyter Lab. - [PDF…
    comment by Helmut10001 · 2024-03-21 · in Google Scholar PDF Reader
  4. …I tried at least three other PDF packages and they did not work as easily or as expected. [1]: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
    comment by Helmut10001 · 2022-11-18 · in Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
  5. …[1] on a Master's thesis titled Algorithmic Extraction of Data in Tables in PDF Documents [2]. [1] https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/blob/stable/pdfplumber/... [2] https://trepo.tuni.fi/bitstream/handle/123456789/21520/Nurmi...
    comment by programmarchy · 2022-08-26 · in USPTO to add surcharge on non-DOCX patent applications in 2023
  6. …ttps://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ - [2]: https://python-docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ - [3]: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber - [4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25608098
    comment by Jugurtha · 2021-01-02 · in Ask HN: What should go in an Excel-to-Python equivalent of a couch-to-5k?
  7. …- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24471058 There also is a Python library: - https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
    comment by Jugurtha · 2020-09-14 · in Ask HN: Software for Reading Pdfs?
  8. A shout-out for PDF Plumber: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber I've done lots of work in this space, including computer vision and ML approaches, and Tabula[1] which was the gold standard for extraction. PDF Plumber is better on just…
    comment by nl · 2020-03-04 · in What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
  9. An alternative: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
    comment by sdiepend · 2018-10-12 · in A Python Library to extract tabular data from PDFs
  10. …or data-inference, just the PDF-to-delimited text processing: - http://tabula.technology/ (Java) - https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber (pure Python as well)
    comment by danso · 2016-03-24 · in Using Google Cloud Vision OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents