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PythonStale
Converts PDF text to XML, built on pdfminer rather than a from-scratch parser; created as an alternative to Poppler's `pdftoxml` specifically because of better handling of CID Type2 font decoding that the Poppler tool got wrong on certain PDFs. Ships three separate CLI utilities — `pdf2xml`, `pdfxml2csv`, and `headerfilter` — covering the conversion itself plus two post-processing steps for turning the XML output into cleaner tabular data.