Supported File Formats

Input/Output

• Fixed Layout: PDF, XPS
• eBook: EPUB
• Markup: HTML, XML
• Typesetting: TeX
• Vector Graphics: SVG

Output Only

• Microsoft Word: DOC, DOCX
• Microsoft Excel: XLS, XLSX
• Microsoft PowerPoint: PPTX
• Image: JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, TIFF
• Metadata: EMF
• eBook: MobiXML (MOBI)
• Text: TXT

Input Only

• Metafile: CGM
• Printer: PCL
• Electronic Publishing: PS
• Stylesheet: XSLFO
• Markdown: MD
• Archive: MHT

Advanced Python PDF Library Features

• Conversion
  • The library supports conversion of over 20 formats, including:
    • PDF to DOCX
    • PDF to XLSX
    • PDF to PPTX
    • PDF to Images
    • PDF to HTML
    • HTML to PDF
    • PDF/A to PDF
    • PDF to PDF/A (X)
    • Support for OFD (Open Fixed-layout Document) format.
• Parsing
  • The library allows you to extract:
    • Text from PDF
    • Images from PDF
    • Fonts from PDF
    • PDF to Images
    • Data from Stamps
    • Data from AcroForms
    • Data from XFA
    • Tabular data
    • Vector graphics
• Processing
  • Compress documents
  • Splitting documents
  • Merging documents
  • Construct PDF documents based on the XML structure
  • Adding, removing comments and annotations
  • Add, extract, remove attachments
  • Get or set Metadata in documents
  • Securing your PDF document
  • Signing your PDF document
• Generation
  • Add pages
  • Add watermarks or stamps
  • Add simple or formatted text
  • Insert images or graphics
  • Add tables
  • Add Vector graphics
  • Add highlighting, underlining, and strikethrough
  • Attach files