PyMuPDF

PyMuPDF is a Python binding for the MuPDF library, which is a lightweight PDF viewer, renderer, and toolkit. PyMuPDF allows Python developers to interact with and manipulate PDF documents programmatically. It provides a rich API for tasks such as reading, writing, rendering, and modifying PDF files.

The library can extract text, images, and metadata from PDF documents. It also supports rendering PDF pages into various image formats like PNG, JPEG, and PPM. PyMuPDF offers capabilities for creating new PDF documents, merging existing ones, splitting documents into separate pages, and annotating pages with text, shapes, or links.

Key features include the ability to search for text within documents, modify existing text, and add new text. Users can also extract graphical elements and vector data. PyMuPDF is known for its speed and efficiency, making it suitable for processing large PDF files or for applications requiring real-time rendering. It is cross-platform and can be installed using pip. The library's versatility makes it a popular choice for document automation, data extraction, and PDF generation tasks in Python.