text-extraction

pdf_oxide

+61

The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

pdf-craft

+44

PDF craft can convert PDF files into various other formats. This project will focus on processing PDF files of scanned books.

pdf-inspector

+52

Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.

liteparse

+41

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

trafilatura

+28

Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

xberg-io/xberg

+23

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

unidoc/unipdf

+2

Golang PDF library for creating and processing PDF files (pure go)

sumy

+1

Module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.