pdfplumber
Extract text, tables and metadata from PDFs with precise character locations.
Used in agent projects
39
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in files, images and media
#26 of 52
by use in those projects
Downloads
10.7M
PyPI, last 7 days, pdfplumber
GitHub stars
10.8K
last push Aug 6, 2026
How pdfplumber is used
pdfplumber is a dependency in 39 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #26 of 52 in files, images and media. The most used alternative there is Sharp. Projects that use it most often also use FastAPI (61.5%), Uvicorn (59.0%), python-dotenv (59.0%).
Often used with pdfplumber
| FastAPI | 61.5% of pdfplumber projects · 14.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| Uvicorn | 59.0% of pdfplumber projects · 13.8× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 59.0% of pdfplumber projects · 9.0× more than average |
| NumPy | 51.3% of pdfplumber projects · 13.4× more than average |
| SQLAlchemy | 48.7% of pdfplumber projects · 24.7× more than average |
| Pydantic | 46.2% of pdfplumber projects · 9.0× more than average |
| openpyxl | 43.6% of pdfplumber projects · 62.9× more than average |
| python-multipart | 41.0% of pdfplumber projects · 24.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list pdfplumber as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install pdfplumber |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (37), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, owid/etl, assafkip/kipi, RajjjAryan/career-copilot, madfam-org/tezca |
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