pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs — text, tables, lines, rectangles, and curves — with visual debugging support. Built on pdfminer.six, it excels at structured table extraction from machine-generated PDFs and includes both a Python API and CLI.
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name: "pdfplumber Python PDF Text and Table Extraction Library"
slug: "pdfplumber-python-pdf-text-table-extraction"
description: "pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs — text, tables, lines, rectangles, and curves — with visual debugging support. Built on pdfminer.six, it excels at structured table extraction from machine-generated PDFs and includes both a Python API and CLI."
github_stars: 10102
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber"
category: "Data Extraction & Transformation"
framework: "Custom Agents"
tool_ecosystem:
github_repo: "jsvine/pdfplumber"
github_stars: 10102
---
# pdfplumber Python PDF Text and Table Extraction Library
pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs — text, tables, lines, rectangles, and curves — with visual debugging support. Built on pdfminer.six, it excels at structured table extraction from machine-generated PDFs and includes both a Python API and CLI.
## Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install pdfplumber
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfplumber)  [ on [Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14](.github/workflows/tests.yml).
- [Python library](#python-library)
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- sh
- ## Command line interface
- ### Basic example
- Source: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/HEAD/README.md
## Source
- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/pdfplumber-python-pdf-text-table-extraction/)
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