pdfplumber vs PyMuPDF vs PyPDF2 for PDF Extraction
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If you’re extracting data from PDFs in Python, you’ll encounter three libraries repeatedly: pdfplumber, PyMuPDF (imported as fitz), and PyPDF2. They overlap in capability but differ in what they’re optimised for.
Picking the wrong one costs time. Here’s how to pick the right one.