PDF processing and analysis with open-source tools

This page summarizes and extends the software alternatives mentioned in the source post on Hacker News.

2022-10-09

PDF Tools PDF Editor PDF Creator

Tabula Landing Page
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Tabula

Tabula is a tool for liberating data tables locked inside PDF files. Extract tables from PDFs.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#PDF Tools #PDF Editor #OS & Utilities 35 social mentions
Tesseract Landing Page

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Tesseract

Tesseract is an optical character recognition engine for various operating systems

> Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS How about tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).

#OCR #Image Recognition #PDF Editor 79 social mentions
PDFsam Landing Page
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PDFsam

PDFsam Basic, a free, open source, multi-platform software designed to split, merge, extract pages, mix and rotate PDF files
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
I'd like to add this tool to the list: https://pdfsam.org/.

#PDF Tools #PDF Creator #PDF Editor 32 social mentions
WeasyPrint Landing Page
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WeasyPrint

WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#HTML To PDF #PDF Conversion API #PDF Tools 30 social mentions

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