PDF Library Benchmarks

This benchmark is about reading pure PDF files - notscanned documents and not documents that applied OCR.

Benchmarking machine

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz

Input Documents

#	Name	File Size	Pages
1	2201.00214	2.4MiB	22
2	GeoTopo-book	5.1MiB	117
3	2201.00151	1.5MiB	12
4	1707.09725	7.0MiB	134
5	2201.00021	2.6MiB	10
6	2201.00037	2.9MiB	33
7	2201.00069	14.7MiB	15
8	2201.00178	2.3MiB	16
9	2201.00201	1.3MiB	9
10	1602.06541	2.9MiB	16
11	2201.00200	284.8KiB	7
12	2201.00022	1.1MiB	11
13	2201.00029	797.6KiB	12
14	1601.03642	1004.9KiB	8

Libraries

Name	Last PyPI Release	License	Version	Dependencies
Borb	2023-06-23	AGPL/Commercial	2.1.16
pypdfium2	2023-07-04	Apache-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause	4.18.0	PDFium (Foxit/Google)
pdfminer.six	2022-11-05	MIT/X	20221105
pdfplumber	2023-07-29	MIT	0.10.2	pdfminer.six
pdfrw	2017-09-18	MIT	0.4
pdftotext	-	GPL	0.86.1	build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config python3-dev
PyMuPDF	2023-08-24	GNU AFFERO GPL 3.0 / Commerical	1.23.1	MuPDF
pypdf	2023-08-26	BSD 3-Clause	3.15.4
Tika	2023-01-01	Apache v2	2.6.0	Apache Tika

Text Extraction Speed

#	Library	Average	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	PyMuPDF	0.1s	0.4s	0.2s	0.2s	0.2s	0.0s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s
2	pypdfium2	0.2s	1.9s	0.2s	0.2s	0.2s	0.0s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.0s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s
3	pdftotext	0.3s	0.8s	1.0s	0.3s	0.8s	0.1s	0.2s	0.2s	0.1s	0.0s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s
4	Tika	1.1s	12.9s	0.9s	0.6s	0.4s	0.1s	0.3s	0.2s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s
5	pypdf	2.6s	18.7s	4.8s	5.3s	2.3s	0.7s	0.9s	0.4s	0.5s	0.3s	0.6s	0.5s	0.4s	0.4s	0.2s
6	pdfminer.six	4.5s	26.0s	12.9s	8.0s	4.6s	1.3s	2.1s	1.0s	1.2s	0.8s	1.5s	0.9s	0.9s	0.6s	0.6s
7	pdfplumber	6.7s	41.7s	10.9s	11.5s	8.4s	2.4s	4.3s	2.0s	1.9s	1.9s	2.7s	1.8s	1.7s	1.0s	1.2s
8	Borb	34.7s	111.2s	105.0s	1.4s	87.2s	21.1s	7.4s	83.5s	16.4s	20.3s	5.4s	3.4s	18.8s	3.2s	2.1s

Image Extraction Speed

#	Library	Average	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	PyMuPDF	0.5s	0.3s	0.5s	0.0s	1.7s	0.4s	0.0s	3.2s	0.4s	0.4s	0.1s	0.0s	0.3s	0.2s	0.0s
2	pypdf	2.8s	16.4s	2.1s	0.8s	9.2s	1.1s	0.0s	6.7s	0.9s	0.9s	0.4s	0.0s	0.7s	0.2s	0.1s
3	pdfminer.six	6.5s	31.8s	13.7s	9.2s	24.0s	1.5s	2.3s	1.5s	1.4s	0.9s	1.5s	0.9s	1.0s	0.6s	0.5s

Watermarking Speed

#	Library	Average	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	PyMuPDF	0.0s	0.0s	0.1s	0.0s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s	0.0s
2	pdfrw	0.1s	0.0s	0.4s	0.0s	0.3s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.1s	0.0s	0.1s	0.0s	0.0s
3	pypdf	0.4s	0.6s	1.7s	0.4s	0.9s	0.2s	0.3s	0.4s	0.3s	0.2s	0.3s	0.1s	0.2s	0.0s	0.2s

Watermarking File Size

#	Library	Average	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	pdfrw	3.4MB	2.5MB	5.7MB	1.6MB	7.3MB	2.7MB	3.1MB	15.4MB	2.4MB	1.3MB	3.0MB	0.3MB	1.1MB	0.8MB	1.0MB
2	pypdf	3.5MB	2.5MB	5.7MB	1.6MB	7.3MB	2.7MB	3.1MB	15.4MB	2.4MB	1.3MB	3.0MB	0.3MB	1.1MB	0.8MB	1.0MB
3	PyMuPDF	3.7MB	2.7MB	6.8MB	1.7MB	8.5MB	2.8MB	3.4MB	15.5MB	2.5MB	1.4MB	3.2MB	0.3MB	1.2MB	0.9MB	1.1MB

Text Extraction Quality

#	Library	Average	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
1	pypdfium2	98%	99%	97%	94%	99%	98%	96%	99%	98%	99%	99%	98%	98%	99%	99%
2	pypdf	97%	98%	93%	94%	98%	98%	96%	97%	98%	99%	99%	98%	98%	98%	99%
3	PyMuPDF	97%	98%	96%	93%	97%	98%	96%	98%	98%	98%	98%	97%	97%	98%	99%
4	Tika	96%	99%	98%	92%	97%	98%	96%	93%	97%	98%	93%	98%	93%	98%	96%
5	pdftotext	93%	96%	93%	91%	94%	92%	96%	96%	96%	97%	83%	94%	96%	96%	79%
6	pdfminer.six	90%	95%	79%	86%	92%	86%	93%	95%	93%	92%	92%	93%	86%	98%	86%
7	pdfplumber	75%	94%	84%	61%	97%	61%	93%	61%	89%	57%	59%	67%	59%	98%	67%
8	Borb	45%	70%	79%	0%	40%	48%	92%	0%	64%	51%	41%	55%	43%	0%	53%