PDF Processing Pro

Production-ready PDF processing toolkit with pre-built scripts, comprehensive error handling, and support for complex workflows.

Quick start

Extract text from PDF

import pdfplumber

with pdfplumber.open("document.pdf") as pdf: text = pdf.pages[0].extract_text() print(text)

Analyse PDF form (using included script)

python scripts/analyze_form.py input.pdf --output fields.json

Returns: JSON with all form fields, types, and positions

Fill PDF form with validation

python scripts/fill_form.py input.pdf data.json output.pdf

Validates all fields before filling, includes error reporting

Extract tables from PDF

python scripts/extract_tables.py report.pdf --output tables.csv

Extracts all tables with automatic column detection

Features

Production-ready scripts

• Error handling with detailed messages and proper exit codes

• Input validation, type checking, and configurable logging

• Full type annotations and CLI interface (--help on all scripts)

Comprehensive workflows

• PDF forms, table extraction, OCR processing

• Batch operations, pre/post-processing validation

Advanced topics

PDF form processing

Complete form workflows including field analysis, dynamic filling, validation rules, multi-page forms, and checkbox/radio handling. See references/forms.md.

Table extraction

Complex table extraction including multi-page tables, merged cells, nested tables, custom detection, and CSV/Excel export. See references/tables.md.

OCR processing

Scanned PDFs and image-based documents including Tesseract integration, language support, image preprocessing, and confidence scoring. See references/ocr.md.

Included scripts

Script Purpose Usage

analyze_form.py Extract form field info python scripts/analyze_form.py input.pdf [--output fields.json] [--verbose]

fill_form.py Fill PDF forms with data python scripts/fill_form.py input.pdf data.json output.pdf [--validate]

validate_form.py Validate form data before filling python scripts/validate_form.py data.json schema.json

extract_tables.py Extract tables to CSV/Excel python scripts/extract_tables.py input.pdf [--output tables.csv] [--format csv|excel]

extract_text.py Extract text with formatting python scripts/extract_text.py input.pdf [--output text.txt] [--preserve-formatting]

merge_pdfs.py Merge multiple PDFs python scripts/merge_pdfs.py file1.pdf file2.pdf --output merged.pdf

split_pdf.py Split PDF into pages python scripts/split_pdf.py input.pdf --output-dir pages/

validate_pdf.py Validate PDF integrity python scripts/validate_pdf.py input.pdf

Dependencies

All scripts require:

pip install pdfplumber pypdf pillow pytesseract pandas

Optional for OCR:

macOS: brew install tesseract

Ubuntu: apt-get install tesseract-ocr

Windows: Download from GitHub releases

References

File Contents

references/forms.md Complete form processing guide

references/tables.md Advanced table extraction

references/ocr.md Scanned PDF processing

references/workflows.md Common workflows, error handling, performance tips, best practices

references/troubleshooting.md Troubleshooting common issues and getting help