beatrizalmeidaf/papero-pdf-text-extractor

Fast, open-source PDF text extraction API. Files never stored.

Data & analyticsPython#pdf#pdf-extraction#pdf-processing#pdf-to-text#pdf-tools

5.1 Early signal Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 1, 2026, 20:19 UTC.

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About the project

Open-source API and Python library for extracting PDF structure: reading order, tables, formulas, figures and block positions. Runs on CPU without ML models, files are never stored.

Useful for

Extract tables from a research paper into CSV or Excel for analysis
Convert a PDF to Markdown preserving reading order for RAG ingestion
Run a local REST API via Docker for batch document processing

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Why it’s trending

83 stars so far today, about 96 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 96× as much.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
Hacker News: “Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes” — 44 points, 4 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 76
Today: 83 · ≈ 96 by evening
Forks: 2
Issues and pull requests: 0
Watchers: 1
Language: Python
License: MIT
Created: April 12, 2025
Last push: October 1, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes44 points, October 1, 2026

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