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Welcome to pdfminer.six's documentation!
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Pdfminer.six is a python package for extracting information from PDF documents.
Check out the source on `github <https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six>`_.
Content
=======
This documentation is organized into four sections (according to the `Divio
documentation system <https://documentation.divio.com>`_). The
:ref:`tutorial` section helps you setup and use pdfminer.six for the first
time. Read this section if this is your first time working with pdfminer.six.
The :ref:`howto` offers specific recipies for solving common problems.
Take a look at the :ref:`topic` if you want more background information on
how pdfminer.six works internally. The :ref:`reference` provides
detailed api documentation for all the common classes and functions in
pdfminer.six.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
tutorial/index
howto/index
topic/index
reference/index
Features
========
* Parse all objects from a PDF document into Python objects.
* Analyze and group text in a human-readable way.
* Extract text, images (JPG, JBIG2 and Bitmaps), table-of-contents, tagged
contents and more.
* Support for (almost all) features from the PDF-1.7 specification
* Support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean CJK) languages as well as vertical
writing.
* Support for various font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, and CID).
* Support for RC4 and AES encryption.
Installation instructions
=========================
Before using it, you must install it using Python 3.4 or newer.
::
$ pip install pdfminer.six
Contributing
============
We welcome any contributors to pdfminer.six! But, before doing anything, take
a look at the `contribution guide
<https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md>`_.
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