# pdfplumber Python PDF Text and Table Extraction Library

> pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs — text, tables, lines, rectangles, and curves — with visual debugging support. Built on pdfminer.six, it excels at structured table extraction from machine-generated PDFs and includes both a Python API and CLI.

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- Updated: 2026-09-08
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# pdfplumber Python PDF Text and Table Extraction Library

pdfplumber is a Python library for extracting detailed information from PDFs — text, tables, lines, rectangles, and curves — with visual debugging support. Built on pdfminer.six, it excels at structured table extraction from machine-generated PDFs and includes both a Python API and CLI.

## Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pip install pdfplumber

Requirements and caveats from upstream:
- [![Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/pdfplumber.svg)](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfplumber) ![Tests](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/workflows/Tests/badge.svg) [![Code coverage](https://codecov.io/gh/jsvi...
- Currently [tested](tests/) on [Python 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 3.14](.github/workflows/tests.yml).
- [Python library](#python-library)

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- sh
- ## Command line interface
- ### Basic example

- Source: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/HEAD/README.md

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