PyMuPDF Pro

Overview

PyMuPDF Pro is a set of commercial extensions for PyMuPDF.

• Enables Office document handling, including doc, docx, hwp, hwpx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, and others.

• Supports text and table extraction, document conversion and more.

• Available for these platforms only:

  • Windows x86_64.
  • Linux x86_64 (glibc).
  • Linux aarch64 (glibc).
  • MacOS x86_64.
  • MacOS arm64.

• Supports Python 3.9-3.13.

• See https://artifex.com/products/pymupdf-pro/ for more.

Installation

pip install pymupdfpro

This will also install PyMuPDF.

Usage

Restricted usage without a key:

import pymupdf.pro
pymupdf.pro.unlock()

# PyMuPDF has now been extended with PyMuPDF Pro features, with some
# restrictions.

Unrestricted usage with a key from https://pymupdf.io/try-pro:

import pymupdf.pro
pymupdf.pro.unlock(my_key)

# PyMuPDF has now been extended with PyMuPDF Pro features.

• For more please see: https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pymupdf-pro.html#usage

Changelog

PyMuPDFPro-1.26.4

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.26.4.

PyMuPDFPro-1.26.3.1

• Experimental release with SO fixes.

PyMuPDFPro-1.26.3 (2025-7-11):

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.26.3.

PyMuPDFPro-1.26.1 (2025-6-26):

• Fix problem in activity monitoring.
• Use SmartOffice tag v3.16.61-preconverted.
• Added Linux-aarch64 wheel.
• Use SmartOffice tag issue10489.
• Fixed document.metadata['format'] strings - previously the last character was truncated.
• Fixed test_4496(), 'cannot find entry Contents/Contents/header.xml' error.

PyMuPDFPro-1.25.5 (2025-04-01):

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.25.5.

PyMuPDFPro-1.25.4 (2025-03-17):

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.25.4.
• Use SmartOffice tag issue10456.
• Avoid Windows test failure if font directory does not exist.

PyMuPDFPro-1.25.3 (2025-02-10):

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.25.3.
• Use newer Office code.

PyMuPDFPro-1.25.0 (2024-12-09):

• Fixed handling of trial keys - used to only allow 3 pages.
• Avoid using many file descriptors for installed .otf fonts.

2024-12-03: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.14

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.14.
• Allow use with later PyMuPDF.
• Improve font finding on Windows.
• Added activity monitoring.
• Improved handling of invalid keys.
• Improved display of key timeout.

2024-10-25: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.12

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.12.
• Automatically add all system fonts on non-Windows.
  • Fixes #3976.

2024-10-15: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.11

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.11.

• Work better on older OS releases.

• Supported Python versions are now 3.9-3.13.

  • Support added for Python 3.13 because now released.
  • Support dropped for Python 3.8 because end-of-life.
  • See https://devguide.python.org/versions/.

• Wheels now use the Python Stable ABI.

  • There is now just one wheel per platform.
  • Each wheel works with all supported Python versions.

2024-09-05: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.10

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.10.
• Added support for MacOS-arm64.
• Fixed detection of key with no expiry.

2024-08-08: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.9.1

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.9.
• Added support for MacOS-x86_64.

2024-07-26: PyMuPDFPro-1.24.9

• Works with PyMuPDF-1.24.9.
• Support for Windows-amd64 and Linux-x86_64.