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PDFPlumbergithub.compdfplumber is a Python library that plumbs PDFs to extract detailed information about each text character, rectangle, and line, with built-in table extraction and visual debugging. It is built on pdfminer.six and works best with machine-generated PDFs rather than scanned ones. It offers both a Python API and a command-line interface, with output formats including CSV, JSON, or plain text, and supports extracting text, tables, and form values.
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