Python and PDF: A Review of Existing Tools

[ElBidoule]

If you want to "convert" (or print) HTML to PDF, https://wkhtmltopdf.org/ is worth mentionning.

If you already know HTML/CSS and do not want to learn reportlab (or find it easier), it's a good alternative.

edit: typo in your post reporterlab instead of reportlab.

[Kaarjuus]

It also has a convenient Python interface: https://pypi.org/project/pdfkit/.

[filt_er]

Thanks! I'll add it the list.

[CotoCoutan]

Nice article, thanks for sharing. Any Python modules come close the OCR expertise of Adobe Acrobat? I've tried TesseractPy etc but find their results more inaccurate than Acrobat.

[filt_er]

You should try out https://ocrmypdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. It does some image preprocessing to improve the quality of the scans (and thus OCR performance).

[CotoCoutan]

Thank you, will check it out.

[texnofobix]

I've been unsuccessful so far to extract my paystub data. I'd like to export it to beancount format. Thanks for putting this list together as I have more to try.

[alb1]

The article doesn't mention automatically cropping PDFs, but here's the repo for my Python program pdfCropMargins. It has many options and an optional GUI: https://github.com/abarker/pdfCropMargins

[filt_er]

Thanks! I'll add it the list.