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pypdf2

A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pypdf2 has 29M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 3.0.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2022.

It is built on top of dataclasses and typing-extensions. It is used by 1,062 tracked packages, including pdf-tools-mcp, demisto-sdk and assetutilities.

GitHub topics include pypdf2, pdf and pdf-parser.

Downloads
Day
839.2K
Week
6.1M
Month
29.0M
Stars
10.1K
Forks
1.6K
Issues
97
Version
3.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
86
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
28,957,404
• 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
28,957,404
Stars
10,106
Stars per 1k downloads
0.35
• 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
874,785
Month daily avg
965,247
Momentum
-9.4%
((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
BSD 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
1283 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
5.0
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
308
Monthly downloads
28,957,404
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
90
 
Issue Burden
9.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
33.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1272d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 480.4K
Windows 26.2K
macOS 4.7K

Python Versions

3.12
45.9% 220.3K
3.10
20.5% 98.2K
3.11
20.0% 96.2K
3.13
9.8% 47.2K
3.14
3.8% 18.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
355.5K
2. SG SG
60.2K
3. CN CN
17.0K
4. JP JP
15.5K
5. IN IN
11.6K
6. NL NL
8.4K
7. DE DE
7.8K
8. CL CL
5.7K
9. HK HK
4.7K
10. GB GB
4.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
August 12, 2013
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.0.1
Total Releases
64
Contributors
308
Open PRs
45
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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