{"categories":[{"label":"Text Processing","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/text-processing/3"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Extracts text and layout information from PDF documents, including font details, positions, and structure, with support for encrypted PDFs and multiple output formats.","skillfed_tags":["pdf-parsing","abandoned"],"use_cases":["Extract text and position data from PDF documents for document processing or data mining workflows","Convert PDFs to HTML or XML for downstream analysis or republishing","Debug PDF structure and internal content using dumppdf.py for troubleshooting","Parse encrypted PDFs with password protection to access restricted content","Analyze document layout and reconstruct reading order from complex multi-column or figure-heavy PDFs"],"what_it_does":"PDFMiner is a pure Python PDF parser and text extraction tool that reads PDF documents and extracts rendered text along with precise layout metadata\u2014font names, sizes, positions, and writing direction. It performs automatic layout analysis to reconstruct document structure and can output results as plain text, HTML, XML, or tagged content. It handles encrypted PDFs (RC4 and AES), multiple font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, CID), and CJK languages with vertical writing support.\n\nThe package provides both a programmatic API for integration into Python applications and command-line tools (pdf2txt.py for extraction, dumppdf.py for debugging). However, it is no longer maintained\u2014the repository was archived in 2022 with the last commit in December of that year, and no updates have been released since November 2019. While it remains functional for basic PDF text extraction tasks, it receives no security updates or bug fixes.","worth_installing":"No\u2014not recommended for new projects. The package is abandoned (last release 2019-11-25, repository archived 2022), receives no maintenance or security updates, and has high install friction due to source-only distribution. Use pdfminer.six instead, which is actively maintained and provides the same core functionality with ongoing support."},"id":"pdfminer","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pdfminer","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/pdfminer.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2019-11-25","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"pdfminer","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"PDF parser and analyzer"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":229484,"position":9131,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"20191125"}