PDF Processing

Contents

• Text extraction (priority order)
• Table extraction (pdfplumber)
• Screenshot/render pages to images
• Merge, split, rotate (pypdf)
• Create PDFs (reportlab)
• Command-line tools (qpdf, pdftotext)
• OCR for scanned PDFs

Form filling: See forms.md Advanced features: See reference.md

Text Extraction - Priority Order

ALWAYS try methods in this order: