Paddlefish

A Python + C implementation for image-based PDF page layout analysis and content extraction.

(This project is just getting started.)

Features

PDF Processing

• 📄 PDF page content understanding using an image-based visualized method, segmenting tables and text boxes
• 🧪 Unit test controlled layout analysis results for quality assurance
• 🚀 High speed analysis: Image processing written in NumPy + scikit-image, achieving 3 page/sec per 1000 Geekbench score on a single core.
• 🧬 Conversion from PDF files to structured JSON