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This benchmark is about reading pure PDF files - notscanned documents and not documents that applied OCR.
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz
| # | Name | File Size | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2201.00214 | 2.4MiB | 22 |
| 2 | GeoTopo-book | 5.1MiB | 117 |
| 3 | 2201.00151 | 1.5MiB | 12 |
| 4 | 1707.09725 | 7.0MiB | 134 |
| 5 | 2201.00021 | 2.6MiB | 10 |
| 6 | 2201.00037 | 2.9MiB | 33 |
| 7 | 2201.00069 | 14.7MiB | 15 |
| 8 | 2201.00178 | 2.3MiB | 16 |
| 9 | 2201.00201 | 1.3MiB | 9 |
| 10 | 1602.06541 | 2.9MiB | 16 |
| 11 | 2201.00200 | 284.8KiB | 7 |
| 12 | 2201.00022 | 1.2MiB | 14 |
| 13 | 2201.00029 | 797.6KiB | 12 |
| 14 | 1601.03642 | 1004.9KiB | 8 |
| Name | Last PyPI Release | License | Version | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pypdfium2 | 2024-12-19 | Apache-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause | 4.30.1 | PDFium (Foxit/Google) |
| pdfminer.six | 2025-05-06 | MIT/X | 20250506 | |
| pdfplumber | 2025-06-12 | MIT | 0.11.7 | pdfminer.six |
| pdfrw | 2017-09-18 | MIT | 0.4 | |
| pdftotext | - | GPL | 0.86.1 | build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config python3-dev |
| PyMuPDF | 2025-06-12 | GNU AFFERO GPL 3.0 / Commerical | 1.26.1 | MuPDF |
| pypdf | 2025-06-29 | BSD 3-Clause | 5.7.0 | |
| Tika | 2025-03-26 | Apache v2 | 3.1.0 | Apache Tika |
| # | Library | Average | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PyMuPDF | 0.1s | 0.4s | 0.3s | 0.2s | 0.2s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 2 | pypdfium2 | 0.1s | 0.5s | 0.3s | 0.2s | 0.2s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 3 | Tika | 0.2s | 0.8s | 0.5s | 0.3s | 0.3s | 0.1s | 0.2s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 4 | pdftotext | 0.3s | 0.7s | 0.9s | 0.2s | 0.8s | 0.1s | 0.3s | 0.4s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.2s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 5 | pypdf | 3.5s | 26.2s | 6.4s | 6.8s | 3.3s | 0.9s | 1.6s | 0.6s | 0.6s | 0.5s | 0.8s | 0.6s | 0.6s | 0.5s | 0.3s |
| 6 | pdfminer.six | 5.8s | 35.1s | 16.6s | 10.2s | 5.5s | 1.5s | 2.5s | 1.1s | 1.6s | 1.1s | 2.0s | 1.5s | 1.4s | 0.7s | 0.6s |
| 7 | pdfplumber | 9.5s | 60.9s | 16.6s | 17.0s | 10.7s | 3.1s | 5.3s | 2.6s | 2.5s | 2.3s | 3.8s | 2.5s | 2.7s | 1.4s | 1.3s |
| # | Library | Average | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PyMuPDF | 0.5s | 0.3s | 0.5s | 0.0s | 1.6s | 0.4s | 0.0s | 2.9s | 0.4s | 0.4s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.3s | 0.2s | 0.0s |
| 2 | pypdfium2 | 1.1s | 1.2s | 1.8s | 0.0s | 3.3s | 0.9s | 0.2s | 5.1s | 0.7s | 0.6s | 0.4s | 0.0s | 0.5s | 0.2s | 0.0s |
| 3 | pypdf | 4.2s | 21.6s | 6.1s | 5.7s | 11.8s | 1.3s | 0.6s | 6.5s | 1.2s | 1.2s | 0.8s | 0.2s | 0.9s | 0.2s | 0.2s |
| 4 | pdfminer.six | 7.4s | 43.9s | 17.5s | 12.7s | 15.4s | 1.6s | 2.5s | 1.6s | 1.5s | 1.0s | 1.8s | 1.2s | 1.3s | 0.7s | 0.5s |
| # | Library | Average | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pdfrw | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.5s | 0.0s | 0.3s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 2 | PyMuPDF | 0.2s | 0.4s | 0.6s | 0.2s | 0.4s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.1s | 0.0s | 0.0s |
| 3 | pypdf | 0.5s | 0.6s | 2.0s | 0.4s | 1.1s | 0.2s | 0.3s | 0.3s | 0.3s | 0.2s | 0.3s | 0.1s | 0.6s | 0.1s | 0.1s |
| # | Library | Average | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pypdf | 3.4MB | 2.5MB | 5.6MB | 1.6MB | 7.2MB | 2.7MB | 3.1MB | 15.4MB | 2.4MB | 1.3MB | 3.0MB | 0.3MB | 1.2MB | 0.8MB | 1.0MB |
| 2 | pdfrw | 3.5MB | 2.5MB | 5.7MB | 1.6MB | 7.3MB | 2.7MB | 3.1MB | 15.4MB | 2.4MB | 1.3MB | 3.0MB | 0.3MB | 1.2MB | 0.8MB | 1.0MB |
| 3 | PyMuPDF | 3.7MB | 2.7MB | 6.9MB | 1.7MB | 8.5MB | 2.8MB | 3.4MB | 15.5MB | 2.5MB | 1.4MB | 3.2MB | 0.3MB | 1.3MB | 0.9MB | 1.1MB |
| # | Library | Average | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pypdfium2 | 97% | 99% | 97% | 94% | 99% | 98% | 96% | 99% | 99% | 99% | 99% | 98% | 78% | 99% | 99% |
| 2 | pypdf | 96% | 99% | 95% | 93% | 98% | 99% | 96% | 97% | 99% | 99% | 99% | 99% | 78% | 100% | 99% |
| 3 | PyMuPDF | 96% | 98% | 96% | 93% | 97% | 98% | 95% | 99% | 98% | 98% | 98% | 97% | 77% | 98% | 99% |
| 4 | Tika | 95% | 99% | 98% | 92% | 97% | 98% | 96% | 93% | 97% | 98% | 93% | 98% | 73% | 98% | 96% |
| 5 | pdftotext | 91% | 96% | 93% | 91% | 94% | 92% | 96% | 96% | 96% | 97% | 83% | 94% | 77% | 96% | 79% |
| 6 | pdfminer.six | 89% | 95% | 79% | 86% | 92% | 86% | 93% | 95% | 93% | 92% | 92% | 93% | 71% | 98% | 86% |
| 7 | pdfplumber | 75% | 94% | 84% | 68% | 97% | 61% | 93% | 61% | 89% | 57% | 59% | 67% | 58% | 98% | 67% |
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