pdf_oxide
A high-performance PDF toolkit for text/image extraction, markdown conversion, and PDF editing, built in Rust with Python, WASM, CLI, and MCP server bindings.
What is pdf_oxide?
PDF Oxide is a high-performance, open-source PDF processing library built with a Rust core. It provides fast and reliable tools for extracting text and images from PDFs, converting them to markdown or HTML, and creating or editing PDF documents. It solves the problem of slow and restrictive PDF processing in data pipelines, AI applications, and document automation.
Developers and data engineers working with document processing pipelines, AI/ML practitioners building RAG systems, and anyone needing fast, reliable PDF text/image extraction or conversion in Python, Rust, or JavaScript environments.
Developers choose PDF Oxide for its exceptional speed (5-15x faster than popular alternatives), 100% reliability on a large test suite, permissive MIT/Apache-2.0 license (no AGPL restrictions), and its unified multi-platform API covering Rust, Python, WASM, CLI, and AI assistants via MCP.
Overview
The fastest PDF library for Python and Rust. Text extraction, image extraction, markdown conversion, PDF creation & editing. 0.8ms mean, 5× faster than industry leaders, 100% pass rate on 3,830 PDFs. MIT/Apache-2.0.
Use Cases
Best For
- Building high-throughput document processing pipelines for RAG and LLM applications
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