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DOC: Add comparison with pdfplumber #1837

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[QPDF]: https://github.com/qpdf/qpdf


## pdfminer
## pdfminer.six
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[`pdfminer.six`](https://pypi.org/project/pdfminer.six/) is capable of
extracting the [font size](https://stackoverflow.com/a/69962459/562769)
/ font weight (bold-ness). It has no capabilities for writing PDF files.

## pdfrw / pdfminer / pdfplumber
## pdfplumber
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[`pdfplumber`](https://pypi.org/project/pdfplumber/) is a library focused mainly on extracting data from the file. Since `pdfplumber` is built on top of `pdfminer.six`, there are **no capabilities of exporting or modifying a PDF file**. It was also mentioned in [#440 (discussions)](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/discussions/440#discussioncomment-803880). However, `pdfplumber` is capable to convert a PDF file into an image, draw lines and rectangles on the image, and save it as an image file.
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The community over at `pdfplumber` is also active in answering questions and the library is actively maintained as of now.
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## pdfrw / pdfminer
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I don't have experience with any of those libraries. Please add a
comparison if you know pypdf and [`pdfrw`](https://pypi.org/project/pdfrw/)!
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Then there is [`pdfrw2`](https://pypi.org/project/pdfrw2/) which doesn't have
a large community behind it.

And there is also [`pdfplumber`](https://pypi.org/project/pdfplumber/)

## Document Generation

There are (Python) [tools to generate PDF documents](https://github.com/py-pdf/awesome-pdf#generators).
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