PDFMiner is a great Python tool that had apparently been abandoned by its original author Yusuke Shinyama in 2016. Ever since, it got forked and re-forked time and time again but never maintained for long.
I created this fork in order to better service the requirements of my own project from PDF analysis:
- Apply multiple pull requests that languish on the original repository, that solve some bugs that I ran into.
- Target Python 3.7. There will be no attempt to maintain backwards compatibility to older versions of Python.
- Generate a smaller distribution package (I'm running on AWS Lambda, where RAM is at a premium), at the cost of dropping support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean PDFs.
If you require Asian language support, it should be simple enough to re-enable it by building with the resource
files in cmaprsrc.
Other than the issues mentioned above, I do strive to make this library drop-in compatible with the original PDFMiner, including for example the package name (which pdfminer3 had changed).
Lineage:
- This is a fork of gwk/pdfminer3.
- gwk/pdfminer3 was forked from pdfminer/pdfminer.six
- pdfminer.six was forked from the original pdfminer
PDFMiner is a pure Python tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
Its focus is on PDF content retrieval and analysis.
Please refer to the original repo for more information: https://github.com/euske