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Expand Up @@ -686,9 +686,9 @@ Pure Python
reportlab is must-have software if you want to programmatically
generate arbitrary PDFs.

- `pyPdf <https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2>`__
- `PyFPDF <https://github.com/reingart/pyfpdf>`__

pyPdf is, in some ways, very full-featured. It can do decompression
PyPDF is, in some ways, very full-featured. It can do decompression
and decryption and seems to know a lot about items inside at least
some kinds of PDF files. In comparison, pdfrw knows less about
specific PDF file features (such as metadata), but focuses on trying
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cases, it does not actually need to decompress objects -- they
can be left compressed.

PyPDF is not maintained anymore, but it has a successors:
`PyFPDF2 <https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2>`__
and `fpdf2 <https://github.com/PyPDF/fpdf2>`__.

- `pdftools <http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/pdftools/index.html>`__

pdftools feels large and I fell asleep trying to figure out how it
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text formats (such as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that
can be used for other purposes instead of text analysis."

- `WeasyPrint <https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint>`__

WeasyPrint is a visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
It aims to support web standards for printing.
It is based on various libraries but not on a full rendering engine like WebKit or Gecko.
The CSS layout engine is written in Python, designed for pagination,
and meant to be easy to hack on.

non-pure-Python libraries
-------------------------

- `pikepdf <https://github.com/pikepdf/pikepdf>`__ read and write PDF files,
based on C++ lib QPDF.
- `pyPoppler <https://launchpad.net/poppler-python/>`__ can read PDF
files.
- `pycairo <http://www.cairographics.org/pycairo/>`__ can write PDF
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