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Why is this library awesome?
pdfplumber provides fine-grained control for extracting text, tables, and metadata from PDF files. It also offers detailed positional and font information for each character, enabling advanced PDF parsing workflows.
What is this Python project? Describe features.
- Extract text, tables, and metadata from PDFs.
- Access character-level positioning and font details.
- Visualize PDF layouts for debugging and analysis.
What’s the difference between this Python project and similar ones?
- Unlike PyPDF2 or pdfminer.six, pdfplumber provides:
- Character-level positional data.
- Table extraction with row/column detection.
- Tools to visualize PDF page layouts.
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