No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pikepdf has 8.9M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 10.9.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of lxml, packaging and pillow. It is used by 199 tracked packages, including img2pdf, ocrmypdf and pypdfform.
GitHub topics include pdf, pdf-generation and pdf-manipulation.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
71
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,901,529
•
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
8,901,529
Stars
2,755
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
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
293,386
Month daily avg
296,718
Momentum
-1.1%
((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
MPL-2.0
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
17 days ago
Total releases
268
Releases/year
30.8
•
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
62
Monthly downloads
8,901,529
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
60
Issue Burden
8.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
12.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.7%
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
139.9K
Windows
6.4K
macOS
2.7K
Python Versions
3.12
42.9%
60.4K
3.11
23.6%
33.3K
3.13
17.2%
24.3K
3.10
8.2%
11.5K
3.14
8.0%
11.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
99.7K
US
2.
DE
10.6K
DE
3.
ID
5.8K
ID
4.
FI
4.8K
FI
5.
CN
4.7K
CN
6.
SG
3.7K
SG
7.
IE
3.7K
IE
8.
IN
3.4K
IN
9.
FR
1.8K
FR
10.
NL
1.7K
NL
Used By
199
- img2pdf
- ocrmypdf
- pypdfform
- google-cloud-documentai-toolbox
- pyhtml2pdf
- pkdevtools
- docassemble-base
- pypdfform-reducto
- docassemble-webapp
- z3c-rml
- pdf2zh
- oarepo
- codex-pdf
- donotreadagain
- gulagcleaner
- papermodels
- pytorch-image-translation-models
- contextweave
- pdftl
- metadata-cleaner
- bayyinah
- uk-bank-statement-anonymiser
- azure-di-financial-haystack
- phi-finder
- pdftopdfa
- mcp-einvoicing-de
- lint-pdf
- aglaia
- doc-redaction
- picopt
- clichefactory
- compile-pdf-impose
- compile-pdf
- annex4ac
- collmex-cli
- glove80-keymap-visualizer
- lexoid
- compile-pdf-trap
- compile-pdf-marks
- hankpdf
- formfyxer
- qpdf
- compile-pdf-rewrite
- pdf-tools-outline
- ocrmypdf-appleocr
- pdf4vllm-mcp
- compile-pdf-soft-proof
- mfcli
- compile-pdf-white-underbase
- compile-pdf-separations
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MPL-2.0
First Release
October 30, 2017
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
10.9.1
Total Releases
268
Contributors
62
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp310
pp36
pp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh