jsvine/pdfplumber

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Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each char, rectangle, line, et cetera — and easily extract text and tables.

Stars: 10.8k
Forks: 923
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 78

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jun 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 18, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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78 open issues indexed

page.page_obj retains pdfminer layout objects, causing ~390 MB memory leak per 170-page PDF even after flush_cache() Open

bug

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jsvine/pdfplumber#1395 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Improve README for PyMuPDF information Open

feature-request

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jsvine/pdfplumber#1394 · Opened Sep 2, 2026
page.extract_text(layout=True) incorrectly reproducing text Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1380 · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Improper parsing of a table's last row on page if unclosed Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1370 · 1 comment · Opened May 8, 2026
y-coordinates are "top to bottom" for words but "bottom to top" for line points. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1369 · Opened Apr 13, 2026
Suspicious website (pdfplumber.com) impersonating project name and redirecting users Open

bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1366 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2026
Table header lines not detected correctly with line-based strategies in pdfplumber Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1360 · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Incorrect table extraction despite visible grid lines (nested boxes) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1357 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 5, 2026
Emit \n\n for paragraph breaks using a higher vertical-gap threshold Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1350 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 12, 2025
Extract hyperlink inside table Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1345 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 3, 2025
crashes process (memory probably on modest pdf) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1339 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 10, 2025
Bug: Input file handle is never closed, causing a ResourceWarning in Python 3.11+ Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1336 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 6, 2025
Table extraction fails when last column is misaligned or multi-line using vertical_strategy="explicit" Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1335 · Opened Sep 29, 2025
Problem with coordinate inversion when origin is not bottom left Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1332 · Opened Sep 25, 2025
Add logic to add outer borders to well-defined tables that lack them Open

feature-request

jsvine/pdfplumber#1325 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 20, 2025
Text in Merged Cell Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1322 · Opened Jul 13, 2025
Bookmarks extraction from PDF Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1319 · Opened Jun 20, 2025
miss char Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1305 · 3 comments · Opened May 28, 2025
x0 order Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1304 · 2 comments · Opened May 28, 2025
Incorrect order of text lines (use_text_flow=True) Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1289 · 5 comments · Opened Apr 6, 2025
page.crop causes the program to freeze Open

awaiting-code-or-pdf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1278 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 11, 2025
Image Extraction incomplete Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1277 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2025
Bug: line_to_edge incorrectly classifies vertical lines as horizontal due to floating point precision Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1276 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 22, 2025
Allow to configure a mimimal length of the edges that are considered for a line reconstruction Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1274 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 13, 2025
Text bounding boxes are shifted down Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1271 · Opened Feb 6, 2025
add `extract_markdown()` to have simple font styling in addition to `extract_text()` Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1266 · 3 reactions · Opened Jan 28, 2025
Text flow in sheet music PDFs Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1255 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 19, 2025
Potential memory leak with extract_words function Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1229 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 25, 2024
need info working with `page.images` Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1217 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 19, 2024
Troubles with images extraction Open

awaiting-code-or-pdf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1207 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2024
OSS Fuzz Integration Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1198 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 5, 2024
page.to_image() PDFium: Data format erro Open

awaiting-code-or-pdf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1179 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 30, 2024
Error While extracting Non-English tables (Arabic) reversed Text Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1159 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 23, 2024
When I set repair=true,there is an error:'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0xae in position 239: invalid start byte.Because of the original PDF? Open

awaiting-code-or-pdf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1145 · 1 comment · Opened May 30, 2024
char need an attr linewidth Open

feature-request

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1137 · 4 comments · Opened May 9, 2024
Custom deduppe_chars char properties Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1114 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 14, 2024
Table extraction bug when lines are just barely end-to-end Open

bug

jsvine/pdfplumber#1110 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 11, 2024
Add `autodetect_direction` option to text-extraction methods Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1109 · Opened Mar 11, 2024
Pickle implementation for PDF and Page objects Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1059 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 12, 2023
original_path extraction error regarding LTCurve Open

feature-request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1057 · 8 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Add `Page.table_of_contents` Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1034 · Opened Oct 30, 2023
Polygons other than rects for crop (etc) Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#1001 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 29, 2023
Functions that can be multi-threaded - Enhancement to documentation Open

feature-request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#995 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2023
For text extraction, add fractional versions of `x/y_tolerance` arguments Open

feature-request

jsvine/pdfplumber#987 · 14 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 11, 2023
"mproving PDF-to-Text Conversion: Integrating Tables as Markup Text on a Page-by-Page Basis Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#984 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2023
Extract table merged cells Open

feature-request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#979 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 30, 2023
Cryptography cant find file. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#960 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 9, 2023
when I try to use extract_words() ,can't get some text Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#956 · 6 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2023
Extracting table with vertical texts give unreadable result Open

bug

jsvine/pdfplumber#942 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 22, 2023
TypeError: argument of type 'PDFObjRef' is not iterable Open

awaiting-code-or-pdf bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

jsvine/pdfplumber#935 · 10 comments · Opened Jul 14, 2023

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