pdfminer

Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.

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Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.

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Observed mentions: 2013-03-27 21:13:52 UTC to 2017-01-03 23:06:06 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2013	2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	3	1	2
2014	2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2015	2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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espeed·Jan 3, 2017

Yes, PDFMiner in Python https://github.com/euske/pdfminer Apache PDFBox in Java https://pdfbox.apache.org Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327493 For a list of others, see http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2016/04/19/pdf-tools-extract-text-a...

In Ask HN: Does software exist to digitize scanned books and articles?

touristtam·Mar 31, 2013

Try to communicate with other contributors that have pending pull request (see https://github.com/euske/pdfminer/network). You might be able to drive a decision to keep a single repo, maybe under a 'new' organisation.

In Ask HN: Take over abandoned GitHub repo

codegeek·Mar 27, 2013

clickable https://github.com/euske/pdfminer

In Ask HN: Take over abandoned GitHub repo

brechin·Mar 27, 2013Submission

Ask HN: Take over abandoned GitHub repo

I'm interested in participating more in the open source community, and have found a project that I can work on during business hours with the blessing of my employer. The maintainer hasn't pushed code or responded to any posted issues or pull requests in more than a year. I've tried emailing the current owner, but no response. The project in question is a pure-Python PDF parsing libarary, pdfminer. https://github.com/euske/pdfminer What's the best course of action? Rename (e.g. pdfminer2) and try to communicate that to the existing user base? Quietly work on my own branch? Contact GitHub support to try to transfer it?

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