yfedoseev/pdf_oxide
The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.
Built on a Rust core with native bindings for Python, JavaScript/WASM, and CLI, offering multi-level text extraction (word, line, character) plus table detection and form field manipulation. Includes an MCP server for AI assistant integration, enabling PDF operations within Claude, Cursor, and similar tools. Achieves performance through a hand-optimized PDF parser with zero-copy text extraction and robust error handling across malformed PDFs.
421 stars and 21,702 monthly downloads. Available on PyPI.
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