PDFx

PythonDepreciatedStaleTested

CLI tool and Python package that extracts metadata (creation date, creator, page count, producer) and detects references (other PDFs, URLs, DOIs, arXiv IDs) within a PDF, with parallel downloading of referenced PDFs, plain-text extraction, and broken-hyperlink detection; outputs plain text or JSON, and accepts local files or URLs.

Sample Results

Real output from running this tool against a sample PDF, as part of PDFog's open-source PDF tooling benchmark.

Input: sample-brochure.pdf

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(cd "sample-brochure.pdf_dir" && uv run --project "$repo_root" pdfx -t "sample-brochure.pdf_name" -o "sample-brochure--pdfx-python.txt")

Output: sample-brochure--pdfx-python.txt

221 Queen Street, Melbourne VIC 3000

apartment

2

1

1

$1,000,000

Prince Cascading

1234-5678

Additional Information

Land Size

House Size

Map Ref.

Energy Rating

Council Rates

Water Rates

1171m2

-

-

-

-

-

WARM BEAUTIFUL APARTMENT

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nunc turpis ante, fermentum ac

cursus vitae, tempus vel ipsum. Proin justo lorem, mattis sed pharetra ac, vehicula

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(cd "sample-brochure.pdf_dir" && uv run --project "$repo_root" pdfx -j "sample-brochure.pdf_name" -o "sample-brochure--pdfx-python.json")

Output: sample-brochure--pdfx-python.json

{
  "source": {
    "type": "file",
    "location": "sample-brochure.pdf",
    "filename": "sample-brochure.pdf"
  },
  "metadata": {
    "Producer": "Prince 8.1 (www.princexml.com)",
    "Title": "Real Estate Example Page",
    "Pages": 1
  },
  "references": {}
}