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The best I've used is PDFPlumber. Camelot lists it on its comparison page[1] but I've had better results.

Both are better than Tabula though.

[1] https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/wiki/Comparison-with-...

Thanks - I cannot get Camelot to run in parallel (I use celery workers to process PDFs), there is some bug in Ghostscript that SEGFAULTS. I’ll try using PDFPlumber instead! By the way Apache Tika has been the best for basic text extraction - even outputs to HTML which is neat.

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