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pdfminer

Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pdfminer has 225K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 20191125 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2009.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2019.

It is used by 38 tracked packages, including passporteye, autocoder-nano and maadstml.

Downloads
Day
7.2K
Week
50.1K
Month
225.5K
Stars
5.3K
Forks
1.1K
Issues
202
Version
20191125

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
82
Adoption
63
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2361 days ago
Monthly downloads
225,496
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
225,496
Stars
5,285
Stars per 1k downloads
23.44
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
7,152
Month daily avg
7,517
Momentum
-4.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
2415 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
1.4
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
19
Monthly downloads
225,496
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
63
 
Issue Burden
38.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.8K
Windows 217
macOS 37

Python Versions

3.9
48.1% 1.7K
3.11
18.1% 630
3.12
15.8% 551
3.10
13.3% 461
3.7
4.7% 164

Top Countries

1. US US
2.7K
2. IN IN
858
3. DE DE
102
4. BR BR
79
5. FI FI
55
6. SG SG
42
7. CA CA
28
8. CN CN
27
9. HK HK
27
10. AU AU
22

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 26, 2009
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
6 years ago
Latest Version
20191125
Total Releases
24
Contributors
19
Open PRs
41
Archived
Yes
Author
Yusuke Shinyama
Keywords
pdf parser pdf converter layout analysis text mining
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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