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The Python API closely follows the Poppler Qt4 C++ interface library API, documented at http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt4/ .

Whereever the C++ API requires QList, QSet or QLinkedList, any Python sequence can be used. API calls that return QList, QSet or QLinkedList all return Python lists.

There are a few differences:

Poppler::Document::getPdfVersion(int *major, int *minor) can simply be called as d.getPdfVersion(), (where d is a Poppler::Document instance); it will return a tuple of two integers (major, minor).

Poppler::FontIterator (returned by Poppler::Document::newFontIterator) is also a Python iterable (e.g. has __iter__() and __next__() methods). So although you can use:

it = document.newFontIterator()
while it.hasNext():
    fonts = it.next()  # list of FontInfo objects
    ...

you can also use the more Pythonic:

for fonts in document.newFontIterator():
    ...

In addition to the Poppler namespace, there are two toplevel module functions:

popplerqt4.version()

returns the version of the python-poppler-qt4 package as a tuple of ints, e.g. (0, 18, 2).

popplerqt4.poppler_version()

returns the version of the linked Poppler-Qt4 library as a tuple of ints, e.g. (0, 24, 5).

This is determined at build time. If at build time the Poppler-Qt4 version could not be determined and was not specified, an empty tuple might be returned.