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Informations about the package pdf-oxide

PDFOxide - The Fastest PDF Toolkit for 20 Languages — Python, Rust, Go, JS/TS, C#, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C++ & more, plus CLI & AI

New in v0.3.69 — eleven new language bindings. PDFOxide now ships idiomatic bindings for C++, Swift, Kotlin, Dart, R, Julia, Zig, Scala, Clojure, Objective-C, and Elixir, each built over the stable C ABI with its own CI workflow, api-coverage tests, and runnable examples. That brings the toolkit to 20 languages (Rust core + 19 bindings). Want another language? Open an issue and tell us.

The fastest PDF library for text extraction, image extraction, and markdown conversion. A Rust core with bindings for 19 languages — Python, Go, JavaScript / TypeScript, C# / .NET, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Clojure, Ruby, PHP, C++, Objective-C, Swift, Dart, R, Julia, Zig, Elixir, and WASM — plus a CLI tool and MCP server for AI assistants. 0.8ms mean per document, 5× faster than PyMuPDF, 15× faster than pypdf. 100% pass rate on 3,830 real-world PDFs. MIT licensed.

Crates.io PyPI PyPI Downloads npm Documentation Build Status License: MIT OR Apache-2.0

Quick Start

Python

Rust

CLI

MCP Server (for AI assistants)

Why PDFOxide?

Performance

Benchmarked on 3,830 PDFs from three independent public test suites (veraPDF, Mozilla pdf.js, DARPA SafeDocs). Text extraction libraries only (no OCR). Single-thread, 60s timeout, no warm-up.

Python Libraries

Library Mean p99 Pass Rate License
PDFOxide 0.8ms 9ms 100% MIT
PyMuPDF 4.6ms 28ms 99.3% AGPL-3.0
pypdfium2 4.1ms 42ms 99.2% Apache-2.0
pymupdf4llm 55.5ms 280ms 99.1% AGPL-3.0
pdftext 7.3ms 82ms 99.0% GPL-3.0
pdfminer 16.8ms 124ms 98.8% MIT
pdfplumber 23.2ms 189ms 98.8% MIT
markitdown 108.8ms 378ms 98.6% MIT
pypdf 12.1ms 97ms 98.4% BSD-3

Rust Libraries

Library Mean p99 Pass Rate Text Extraction
PDFOxide 0.8ms 9ms 100% Built-in
oxidize_pdf 13.5ms 11ms 99.1% Basic
unpdf 2.8ms 10ms 95.1% Basic
pdf_extract 4.08ms 37ms 91.5% Basic
lopdf 0.3ms 2ms 80.2% No built-in extraction

Text Quality

99.5% text parity vs PyMuPDF and pypdfium2 across the full corpus. PDFOxide extracts text from 7–10× more "hard" files than it misses vs any competitor.

Corpus

Suite PDFs Pass Rate
veraPDF (PDF/A compliance) 2,907 100%
Mozilla pdf.js 897 99.2%
SafeDocs (targeted edge cases) 26 100%
Total 3,830 100%

100% pass rate on all valid PDFs — the 7 non-passing files across the corpus are intentionally broken test fixtures (missing PDF header, fuzz-corrupted catalogs, invalid xref streams).

Features

Extract Create Edit
Text & Layout Documents Annotations
Images Tables Form Fields
Forms Graphics Bookmarks
Annotations Templates Links
Bookmarks Images Content

Python API

Page-oriented API

Scoped extraction

Extraction profiles

Form Fields

Rust API

Form Fields (Rust)

Installation

Python

Wheels available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Python 3.8–3.14.

Rust

JavaScript/WASM

CLI

MCP Server

Other languages

Established bindings:

New in v0.3.69 (all over the stable C ABI):

Every binding shares the same Rust core, so a bug fix in one lands in all of them — everything you read in this README applies, just with each language's native naming conventions. Publishing details for each registry are in docs/RELEASING-bindings.md.

CLI

22 commands for PDF processing directly from your terminal:

Run pdf-oxide with no arguments for interactive REPL mode. Use --pages 1-5 to process specific pages, --json for machine-readable output.

MCP Server

pdf-oxide-mcp lets AI assistants (Claude, Cursor, etc.) extract content from PDFs locally via the Model Context Protocol.

Add to your MCP client configuration:

The server exposes an extract tool that supports text, markdown, and HTML output formats with optional page ranges and image extraction. All processing runs locally — no files leave your machine.

Building from Source

Documentation

Use Cases

Notable Users

Projects using PDFOxide in production (verified against their public dependency manifests):

Using PDFOxide in production? Open an issue to be added here.

Why I built this

I needed PyMuPDF's speed without its AGPL license, and I needed it in more than one language. Nothing existed that ticked all three boxes — fast, MIT, multi-language — so I wrote it. The Rust core is what does the real work; the bindings for Python, Go, JS/TS, C#, and WASM are thin shells around the same code, so a bug fix in one lands in all of them. It now passes 100% of the veraPDF + Mozilla pdf.js + DARPA SafeDocs test corpora (3,830 PDFs) on every platform I've tested.

If it's useful to you, a star on GitHub genuinely helps. If something's broken or missing, open an issue — I read all of them.

— Yury

License

Dual-licensed under Apache-2.0 at your option. Unlike AGPL-licensed alternatives, PDFOxide can be used freely in any project — commercial or open-source — with no copyleft restrictions.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

Citation

20 languages (Rust + Python + Go + JS/TS + C# + Java + Kotlin + Scala + Clojure + Ruby + PHP + C++ + Objective-C + Swift + Dart + R + Julia + Zig + Elixir + WASM) + CLI + MCP | MIT/Apache-2.0 | 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs | 0.8ms mean | 5× faster than the industry leaders

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