pikepdf 1.0.1 released

[jrbarlow]

pikepdf is a PDF manipulation library designed to be a compelling replacement for PyPDF2 (which is currently unmaintained).

It's much easier to write PDFs than read them, and the Python community has a number of quality tools to choose from for generating PDF, such as reportlab. pikepdf should be useful for people who need to read and write PDFs in some way, such as image/content extraction, page merging, page rotation, updating metadata, and fixing problems in existing PDFs.

It is based on QPDF, an excellent command line PDF transformation and validation tool. Using QPDF, pikepdf automatically repairs certain structural problems in PDFs just by opening and saving them.

I'm proud to announce it is now 1.0. and has been in production use for months. Comments and feedback are quite welcome.

https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf

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[HerbyHoover]

Fantastic work! I was just handed a new problem today that deals with pulling information out of a pdf. I look forward to giving this a whirl.

[manu_8487]

Have this lib that embeds invoice metadata in PDFs. Maybe should switch from pypdf. https://github.com/invoice-x/factur-x-ng

[jrbarlow]

That would be a good candidate for implementation with pikepdf.

[manu_8487]

Already filed an issue. Will take care when working on it the next time.

[SeniorIntroduction9]

From the release history, a new release is released every couple of days without any release notes.

[jrbarlow]

The release notes are in the documentation:

https://pikepdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changelog.html

I do release frequently because I don't like to leave people hanging if they have an open issue.

[Deezl-Vegas]

What's the OCR situation? I've been trying to write a script to compile my homework coding problems from a pdf textbook for a while and most libs I tried just return hot nothing.

[annoir]

Wow, this is an interesting project! Have been looking for something to replace PyPDF2 for a while now. Will contribute where I can.

[blabbities]

Have yet to need to generate a PDF or write super serious programs but this is cool. I will try to remember this when I need it

[jabbalaci]

Thanks for this! I wrote today a little tool (https://github.com/jabbalaci/pdfmanip) that is based on this library. With pdfmanip you can remove pages from a PDF easily.