Text Extraction Python Packages

trafilatura

Python & Command-line tool to gather text and metadata on the Web: Crawling, scraping, extraction, output as CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, TXT, XML

justext

Heuristic based boilerplate removal tool

html-to-markdown

High performance and CommonMark compliant HTML to Markdown converter. Maintained by the Kreuzberg team. Kreuzberg is a fast, polyglot document intelligence engine with a Rust core. It extracts structured data from 98+ document formats using streaming parsers and built-in OCR.

srt

A simple library and set of tools for parsing, modifying, and composing SRT files.

pdf-inspector

Fast Rust library for PDF inspection, classification, and text extraction. Intelligently detects scanned vs text-based PDFs to enable smart routing decisions.

liteparse

A fast, helpful, and open-source document parser

tika

Tika-Python is a Python binding to the Apache Tika™ REST services allowing Tika to be called natively in the Python community.

kreuzberg

Kreuzberg v4 LTS — long-term support for the v4 line (legacy; superseded by xberg for v5+). MIT-licensed.

pdf-oxide

The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.

python-hwpx

Pure Python HWPX automation: read, edit, generate, and validate documents without Hancom Office.

sumy

Module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.

boilerpy3

Python port of Boilerpipe library

breadability

Reworked https://www.readability.com/ parsing library (now https://mercury.postlight.com/ is living alternative)

xberg

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

office-oxide

The fastest Office document library for Python, Rust, Go, JS/TS, C# and WASM. DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, DOC, XLS, PPT. Up to 100× faster than python-docx/openpyxl/python-pptx. 100% pass rate on valid Office files. MIT/Apache-2.0.

mobi

python based software to unpack kindlegen generated ebooks

legacy-doc

Pure-Python text extraction for classic Microsoft Word .doc files.

xberg-cli

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

bolivar

High-performance PDF table extraction library. Bindings for Python and JVM.

pdfboss

From-scratch Rust PDF toolkit for Python: fast page rendering and text extraction via PyO3. Benchmarked faster than mainstream Python PDF libraries

hwpkit

Read, fill, and edit Korean HWP (Hancom Office) documents in Python. Extract text for LLM / RAG pipelines, fill government & university forms programmatically, and rewrite the binary without corrupting it.

crewai-xberg

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

langchain-xberg

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.

llama-index-node-parser-xberg

Polyglot document intelligence with a Rust core: extract text, metadata, images, tables, and structured data from 106 formats across 140 file extensions, plus code intelligence for 371 languages. Fifteen bindings, with CLI, REST API, and MCP server.