No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pdfminer-six has 64.9M monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 20260107 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of charset-normalizer and cryptography. It is used by 360 tracked packages, including pdfplumber, openhands-aci and polyfile-weave.
GitHub topics include pdf and parser.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
83
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
116 days ago
Monthly downloads
64,900,240
Active
Activity within 30 days
•
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
64,900,240
Stars
7,000
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
•
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
2,195,031
Month daily avg
2,163,341
Momentum
+1.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
•
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
181 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.1
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
•
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
119
Monthly downloads
64,900,240
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
69
Issue Burden
30.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
64d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.8M
Windows
65.4K
macOS
24.1K
Python Versions
3.12
61.7%
1.2M
3.11
16.4%
308.2K
3.13
13.0%
245.5K
3.14
5.3%
99.7K
3.10
3.6%
68.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.0M
US
2.
IN
379.4K
IN
3.
SG
166.1K
SG
4.
DE
121.5K
DE
5.
CN
57.5K
CN
6.
GB
15.2K
GB
7.
JP
14.5K
JP
8.
FR
14.4K
FR
9.
IE
11.4K
IE
10.
NL
10.5K
NL
Dependencies
2
- charset-normalizer >=2.0.0
- cryptography >=36.0.0
1 optional dependencies
- pillow[image]
Used By
360
- pdfplumber
- openhands-aci
- polyfile-weave
- unstructured-inference
- ocrmypdf
- rpaframework-pdf
- textract
- openviking
- typecode
- scancode-toolkit
- magic-pdf
- markitdown-ocr
- textract-py3
- docassemble-base
- docassemble-webapp
- auto-coder
- abstract-ocr
- pdf2zh
- pdftitle
- pdfannots
- arxiv2text
- aient
- aiecs
- pypdf-table-extraction
- credsweeper
- polyfile
- officeparserpy
- modelmerge
- beswarm
- botrun-flow-lang
- openparse
- mtxai
- restai-core
- pyresparser
- gulagcleaner
- star-reader
- memocode
- iocsearcher
- nomos-ai
- micro-cc
- papers-dl
- llmvm-cli
- protollm
- aimoon
- hotpdf
- demogpt
- scancode-toolkit-mini
- pdf2txt
- wdoc
- reviewboardpowerpack
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 19, 2014
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
20260107
Total Releases
37
Contributors
119
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Yusuke Shinyama, Pieter Marsman
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh