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PyMuPDF is a Python binding for MuPDF – “a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer”. MuPDF can access files in PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, CBZ (comic book archive), FB2 and EPUB (e-book) formats. NOTE: It is imported in Python as fitz.

PyMuPDF is a Python binding for – “a lightweight PDF and XPS viewer”.

can access files in PDF, XPS, OpenXPS, CBZ (comic book archive), FB2 and EPUB (e-book) formats.

These are files with extensions .pdf, .xps, .oxps, .cbz, .fb2 or .epub (so you can develop e-book viewers in Python).

PyMuPDF provides access to many important functions of MuPDF from within a Python environment.

Note on the Name fitz:

The standard Python import statement for this library is import fitz. This has a historical reason.

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Crop an area of pdf around annotated text using Fitz

Problem Statement Reading pdf and search for a word. If word found, annotate the word and get an area cropped around the annotated text from the pdf file. Each cropped image should only have one annotation. Libraries and…
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why saving a file that I opened with fitz will change its size?

I looked for what opening a file with fitz do to the file, but didn't find anything. The code is simple: import fitz doc = fitz.open('a.pdf') doc.save('b.pdf') What I don't understand is why this will change the pdf size. With the file I tried, its…
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PyMuPDF insertTextBox inserting text but in mirrored form

import fitz text_rectangle = fitz.Rect(450,20,550,120) file_handle = fitz.open(input_file) first_page = file_handle[0] text = 'SAS Automation' first_page.insertTextbox(text_rectangle, f'{text}') file_handle.save(output_file) Above code adds text in…
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Can a text be searched Blockwise in a PDF using PyMuPDF?

page.getTextBlocks() Output [(42.5, 86.45002746582031, 523.260009765625, 100.22002410888672, TEXT, 0, 0), (65.75, 103.4000244140625, 266.780029296875, 159.59010314941406, TEXT, 1, 0), (48.5, 86.123456, 438.292048492, 100.92920404974, TEXT, 0,…
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Is thre any solution to extract borderless table from PDF to CSV?

This is my example image from pdf file with 75 pages.
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PyMuPDF how do I remove annotations?

I am using PyMuPDF and trying to loop through a list of strings and highlight them before taking an image and moving to the next string. The code below does what I need but the annotation remains after each loop and I would like to remove them…
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How can I correctly add the alpha channel to an image extracted from a PDF using PyMuPDF

I am trying to extract images from a PDF using PyMuPDF and this recipe. For some images with a hard edge transparency it works. But for images with a matte transparency, I get artifacts along the edges. When I extract the image without alpha…
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PyMuPDF insert image at bottom

I'm trying to read a PDF and insert an image at bottom(Footer) of each page in PDF. I've tried with PyMuPDF library. Problem: Whatever the Rect (height, width) I give, it doesn't appear in the bottom, image keeps appearing only on the top half of…
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How to Install PyMuPDF on Heroku Django

I am trying to make a script that extracts Images from PDF and I have made a script in a Django Project and added pymupdf to the requirements.txt.I Have an Aptfile with Mupdf in it and https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-apt as a buildpack…
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Problem regarding highlighting text in pdf document python

I am trying to write a python script that would automate the process of finding text in a pdf and highlight according I am using pymupdf module of python. It works for some pdf. However, when for the target pdf(drawing of components and property…
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Tkinter Canvas PDF Viewer Next Page Render Works Only When Debugging

I am trying to write a PDF viewer in Python/Tkinter using the PyMuPDF library. I can successfully open the document and render the first page, but when attempting to move to the next page by deleting the Canvas image and creating a new one from the…
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Python PyMuPDF Fitz insertImage

Have been trying to put an image into a PDF file using PyMuPDF / Fitz and everywhere I look on the internet I get the same syntax, but when I use it I'm getting a runtime error. >>> doc = fitz.open("NewPDF.pdf") >>> page = doc[1] >>> rect =…
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Extract details from unstructured pdfs either in table or any other format

I tried to extract grant payable org details from PDFs which have fixed format but page numbers are varying. I have spent a lot of time with libraries like PYPDF2, PyMuPDF, Tabula, SpaCy, NLTK, etc. but still no luck. It will be a great help if…
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Correctly extract PDF within PDF - Python

I have a PDF embedded on a PDF. I've tried multiple ways of extracting it, but when I save it I get back the same original PDF (With the embedded one). I only want to get the embedded PDF. I'm open to do it in another programming language, the only…
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Remove the garbage words from the pdf

I am extracting the pdf to text using python and libraries like, fitz, pdfreader and so on. But in my pdf, there are some schematics and words I do not need on it. Here is an example. When extracting the text, the words of the schematics are also…
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