borb is a library for creating and manipulating PDF files in python. borb is a pure python library to read, write, and manipulate PDF documents. It represents a PDF document as a JSON-like data structure of nested lists, dictionaries and primitives (numbers, string, booleans, etc) This is currently a one-man project, so the focus will always be to support those use-cases that are more common in favor of those that are rare.
Features
- Reading a PDF and extracting meta-information
- Adding annotations (notes, links, etc) to a PDF
- Examples and documentation
- borb is dual licensed as AGPL/Commercial software
- Adding text to a PDF
- Adding lists to a PDF
License
Affero GNU Public LicenseFollow borb
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