yfedoseev/pdf_oxide

pdf_oxide

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The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

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Rust · Apache-2.0 · Last push 2026-10-31

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document-processingpdfpdf-editorpdf-generationpdf-librarypdf-parserpythonrusttext-extractiondata-extraction

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Get the project

git clone https://github.com/yfedoseev/pdf_oxide.git

Cloning downloads the source. For dependencies and installation, follow the project README.

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