No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pdftotext has 149K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.0, first published in 2017.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 27 tracked packages, including monopoly-core, languagetools and infra-compass.
GitHub topics include pdf.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
16
Popularity
62
Adoption
61
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
148,607
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
148,607
Stars
1,062
Stars per 1k downloads
7.15
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
4,482
Month daily avg
4,954
Momentum
-9.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
10 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.9
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
4
Monthly downloads
148,607
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
22
Issue Burden
13.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.7K
macOS
40
Windows
28
Python Versions
3.10
34.7%
543
3.11
32.7%
512
3.12
19.0%
297
3.13
10.8%
169
3.8
2.8%
44
Top Countries
1.
US
1.1K
US
2.
BR
333
BR
3.
SG
47
SG
4.
DE
42
DE
5.
IN
41
IN
6.
HK
28
HK
7.
CN
27
CN
8.
NL
15
NL
9.
FI
14
FI
10.
GB
14
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
27
- monopoly-core
- languagetools
- infra-compass
- nrel-compass
- pdf2dataset
- yara-mail
- onegov-file
- sec-certs
- oireachtas-data
- monopoly-sg
- dataxtractor
- hetzner-fix-report
- pdf-llm-tools
- bbva2pandas
- imagetocsv
- document-reader
- ofxstatement-french
- pysin
- chatlocal
- tallybot
- nedextract
- jsonify-resume
- situacao
- pdf-to-string-converter
- ioc-parser-ng
- pdfparser
- doc2sdo
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
June 10, 2017
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.0.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
4
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh