Pdf

This is a solid all-in-one PDF toolkit that covers the practical stuff you actually need: extracting text and tables with pdfplumber, merging and splitting documents with pypdf, creating new PDFs from scratch using reportlab, and handling form filling. The guide is well organized with working code snippets for common tasks like adding watermarks, password protection, and OCR for scanned documents. It also includes command-line alternatives with qpdf and poppler-utils if you prefer that route. The table extraction examples are especially useful since getting structured data out of PDFs is usually a pain. Good reference to have when you need to automate document workflows without reaching for a paid API.