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PyMuPDF ​

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.

Installation ​

PyMuPDF requires Python 3.9 or later, install using pip with:

shell
pip3 install PyMuPDF
pip3 install PyMuPDF

Open a File ​

python
import pymupdf

doc = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open a document
import pymupdf

doc = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open a document

Extract text from a PDF ​

python
import pymupdf

doc = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open a document
out = open("output.txt", "wb") # create a text output
for page in doc: # iterate the document pages
    text = page.get_text().encode("utf8") # get plain text (is in UTF-8)
    out.write(text) # write text of page
    out.write(bytes((12,))) # write page delimiter (form feed 0x0C)
out.close()
import pymupdf

doc = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open a document
out = open("output.txt", "wb") # create a text output
for page in doc: # iterate the document pages
    text = page.get_text().encode("utf8") # get plain text (is in UTF-8)
    out.write(text) # write text of page
    out.write(bytes((12,))) # write page delimiter (form feed 0x0C)
out.close()

Merging PDF files ​

shell
import pymupdf

doc_a = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open the 1st document
doc_b = pymupdf.open("b.pdf") # open the 2nd document

doc_a.insert_pdf(doc_b) # merge the docs
doc_a.save("a+b.pdf") # save the merged document with a new filename
import pymupdf

doc_a = pymupdf.open("a.pdf") # open the 1st document
doc_b = pymupdf.open("b.pdf") # open the 2nd document

doc_a.insert_pdf(doc_b) # merge the docs
doc_a.save("a+b.pdf") # save the merged document with a new filename

Extracting Tables from a Page ​

python
import pymupdf
from pprint import pprint

doc = pymupdf.open("test.pdf") # open document
page = doc[0] # get the 1st page of the document
tabs = page.find_tables() # locate and extract any tables on page
print(f"{len(tabs.tables)} found on {page}") # display number of found tables

if tabs.tables:  # at least one table found?
   pprint(tabs[0].extract())  # print content of first table
import pymupdf
from pprint import pprint

doc = pymupdf.open("test.pdf") # open document
page = doc[0] # get the 1st page of the document
tabs = page.find_tables() # locate and extract any tables on page
print(f"{len(tabs.tables)} found on {page}") # display number of found tables

if tabs.tables:  # at least one table found?
   pprint(tabs[0].extract())  # print content of first table

References ​