pdfquery

That makes sense, as "pdfquery" uses pdfminer.six as a dep: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery/blob/master/requirement...

On the field of PDF parsing, I think the most interesting project I encountered is pdfquery[1], where the PDF is parsed as a XML tree and you can use XPath to query it. You might encounter rough edges when put it into production work but the idea is like “how come i never thought of this” because PDF has some tree like structure and should be a straightforward solution. [1]: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery

I use the pdf.load and pdf.tree.write of PDFQuery. https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery > PDFQuery works by loading a PDF as a pdfminer layout, converting the layout to an etree with lxml.etree, and then applying a pyquery wrapper. All three underlying libraries are exposed, so you can use any of their interfaces to get at the data you want. Here is a minimal Python script to dump the XML tree so you can load it in whatever other language you use and work with it from there. #!/usr/bin/env python3 from pdfquery import PDFQuery pdf = PDFQuery("some_document.pdf") pdf.load() pdf.tree.write("some_document.xml", pretty_print=True, encoding="utf-8") It doesn’t work perfectly with all documents but it works well with many. Give it a try. pip3 install pdfquery