weiplanet / ptext-release

pText is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

pText

pText is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

0. About pText

pText is a pure python library to read, write and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like datastructure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives (numbers, string, booleans, etc)

This is currently a one-man project, so the focus will always be to support those use-cases that are more common in favor of those that are rare.

1. About the Examples

Most examples double as tests, you can find them in the 'tests' directory.
They include;

• reading a PDF and extracting meta-information
• changing meta-information
• extracting text from a PDF
• extracting images from a PDF
• changing images in a PDF
• adding annotations (notes, links, etc) to a PDF
• adding text to a PDF
• adding tables to a PDF
• adding lists to a PDF
• using a layout and much more

2. Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following people, for their contributions / advice with regards to developing pText:

• Michael Klink