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pymupdf

pymupdf

PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
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pymupdf has 100.9M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 1.28.0 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 pipcl and pytest. It is used by 1,928 tracked packages, including pymupdf4llm, pymupdf-layout and crewai-tools.

GitHub topics include mupdf, xps and pdf-documents.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (pymupdf/pymupdf) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
4.5M
Week
30.9M
Month
100.9M
Stars
10.2K
Forks
750
Issues
49
Version
1.28.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
60
Popularity
84
Adoption
100
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
100,934,496
• 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
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
100,934,496
Stars
10,169
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
• 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
4,415,084
Month daily avg
3,364,483
Momentum
+31.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Dual Licensed - GNU AFFERO GPL 3.0 or Artifex Commercial License
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
8 days ago
Total releases
1
Releases/year
0.1
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
87
Monthly downloads
100,934,496
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
81
 
Issue Burden
4.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
147.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.6%
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 2.6M
Windows 468.5K
macOS 35.5K

Python Versions

3.12
43.4% 1.3M
3.13
38.7% 1.2M
3.11
11.5% 354.3K
3.10
4.3% 133.1K
3.14
2.1% 65.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.8M
2. SG SG
103.9K
3. DK DK
83.3K
4. HK HK
72.8K
5. DE DE
66.5K
6. CN CN
49.5K
7. JP JP
34.7K
8. IN IN
27.9K
9. SE SE
27.3K
10. FR FR
20.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Dual Licensed - GNU AFFERO GPL 3.0 or Artifex Commercial License
First Release
November 27, 2017
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
1.28.0
Total Releases
1
Contributors
87
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Artifex
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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