| name | PDF Processing Pro |
| description | Production-ready PDF processing with forms, tables, OCR, validation, and batch operations. Use when working with complex PDF workflows in production environments, processing large volumes of PDFs, or requiring robust error handling and validation. Do NOT use for simple text extraction - use pdf-extract for quick reads. |
PDF Processing Pro
Production-ready PDF processing toolkit with pre-built scripts, comprehensive error handling, and support for complex workflows.
Quick start
Extract text from PDF
import pdfplumber
with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf:
text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text()
print(text)
Analyse PDF form (using included script)
python scripts/analyze_form.py input.pdf --output fields.json
Fill PDF form with validation
python scripts/fill_form.py input.pdf data.json output.pdf
Extract tables from PDF
python scripts/extract_tables.py report.pdf --output tables.csv
Features
Production-ready scripts
- Error handling with detailed messages and proper exit codes
- Input validation, type checking, and configurable logging
- Full type annotations and CLI interface (
--help on all scripts)
Comprehensive workflows
- PDF forms, table extraction, OCR processing
- Batch operations, pre/post-processing validation
Advanced topics
PDF form processing
Complete form workflows including field analysis, dynamic filling, validation rules, multi-page forms, and checkbox/radio handling. See references/forms.md.
Table extraction
Complex table extraction including multi-page tables, merged cells, nested tables, custom detection, and CSV/Excel export. See references/tables.md.
OCR processing
Scanned PDFs and image-based documents including Tesseract integration, language support, image preprocessing, and confidence scoring. See references/ocr.md.
Included scripts
| Script | Purpose | Usage |
|---|
| analyze_form.py | Extract form field info | python scripts/analyze_form.py input.pdf [--output fields.json] [--verbose] |
| fill_form.py | Fill PDF forms with data | python scripts/fill_form.py input.pdf data.json output.pdf [--validate] |
| validate_form.py | Validate form data before filling | python scripts/validate_form.py data.json schema.json |
| extract_tables.py | Extract tables to CSV/Excel | python scripts/extract_tables.py input.pdf [--output tables.csv] [--format csv|excel] |
| extract_text.py | Extract text with formatting | python scripts/extract_text.py input.pdf [--output text.txt] [--preserve-formatting] |
| merge_pdfs.py | Merge multiple PDFs | python scripts/merge_pdfs.py file1.pdf file2.pdf --output merged.pdf |
| split_pdf.py | Split PDF into pages | python scripts/split_pdf.py input.pdf --output-dir pages/ |
| validate_pdf.py | Validate PDF integrity | python scripts/validate_pdf.py input.pdf |
Dependencies
All scripts require:
pip install pdfplumber pypdf pillow pytesseract pandas
Optional for OCR:
References
