# beatrizalmeidaf/papero-pdf-text-extractor

> 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.

- Magnitude: 5.4 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 102 total · +107 stars today, ≈ 116 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Data & analytics · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2025-04-12 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/beatrizalmeidaf/papero-pdf-text-extractor · Homepage: https://beatrizalmeidaf.github.io/papero-pdf-text-extractor/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/beatrizalmeidaf/papero-pdf-text-extractor

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 107 stars so far today, about 116 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 0 per day, so that's 116× 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” — 59 points, 5 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 17 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 15

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-02 … 2026-10-01: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 107

## Hacker News

- Lightweight PDF parser with layout, tables, formulas and bounding boxes — 59 points, 7 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923638

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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