pdfplumber

A Python library for deep PDF inspection that extracts text, tables, and visual shapes with pixel-level precision.

Jeremy Singer-Vine built pdfplumber on top of pdfminer.six to give developers surgical control over PDF data. It bypasses the limitations of basic scrapers by exposing the exact coordinates of every character and vector on a page. The library features a powerful table extraction engine that identifies cell boundaries and handles nested layouts with a few lines of code. Whether you are parsing 500-page financial audits or mapping layout geometry for machine learning, this tool delivers structured output like Python lists and dictionaries without the typical formatting headaches.

https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber