zpdf 0.1.0

High-performance PDF text extraction powered by Zig

zpdf

High-performance PDF text extraction powered by Zig. ~4x faster than MuPDF on large documents.

Install

pip install zpdf

Usage

from zpdf import Document

with Document("paper.pdf") as doc:
    print(doc.page_count)

    # Extract all text (reading order)
    text = doc.extract_all()

    # Extract single page
    page_text = doc.extract_page(0)

    # Extract as markdown
    md = doc.extract_all_markdown()

    # Get text with bounding boxes
    spans = doc.extract_bounds(0)
    for span in spans:
        print(f"{span.text} at ({span.x0}, {span.y0})")

From bytes

with open("doc.pdf", "rb") as f:
    data = f.read()

with Document(data) as doc:
    text = doc.extract_all()

Benchmark

Text extraction on Apple M4 Pro:

Document	Pages	zpdf	MuPDF	Speedup
Intel SDM	5,252	582ms	2,152ms	3.7x
Pandas Docs	3,743	640ms	1,130ms	1.8x
C++ Standard	2,134	438ms	1,007ms	2.3x
PDF Reference	1,310	236ms	1,481ms	6.3x

License

CC0-1.0