PDFMiner

How often 10 AI models put PDFMiner in their top ten, what they say about it, and which competitors they list, on the 1 buying question where it came up.

Mention rate

16%of all answers on this question

Best standing

#14of 36 on Best Python libraries for reading and filling PDF files

Buying questions

1where any model named it

Outside every top ten

2of 10 models; counts below

Which models list it in their top ten

Share of each model's answers that put it in the top ten · The black tick marks the panel average

1. Claude Haiku 5.525%
2. DeepSeek V4.1 Flash25%
3. Kimi K325%
4. MiniMax M325%
5. Nemotron 3.5 Super VL25%
6. Gemini 4 Argon13%
7. GLM-5.313%
8. Mistral Large 413%
9. GPT-6 Luna0%
10. Qwen 3.8 Flash0%

Never put it in their top ten: GPT-6 Luna (0 of 8 answers); Qwen 3.8 Flash (0 of 8 answers). These counts describe the recorded lists, not everything a model knows or would recommend.

What the models say

Each model's one-line reason for recommending it, from its first answer

Best Python libraries for reading and filling PDF files 6

• Claude Haiku 5.5Precise text extraction and layout analysis, but read-only with no editing or filling.
• DeepSeek V4.1 FlashDeep text layout analysis and extraction, but weak for editing.
• GLM-5.3Strong text extraction and analysis; no editing or form filling.
• Kimi K3Powerful text extraction, especially for complex PDF layouts
• MiniMax M3Mature library for detailed text and layout extraction.
• Nemotron 3.5 Super VLExtract text and metadata from PDF documents.

Against the competition

Each question's products ranked by the share of all answers that named them, PDFMiner highlighted.

Best Python libraries for reading and filling PDF files

36 products named in 80 answers across 4 wordings

In nearly every answer

PyMuPDFReportLabpdfplumber

Contested

1. 4pypdf88%
2. 5borb75%
3. 6pikepdf74%
4. 7pdfrw73%
5. 8PyPDF254%
6. ⋯
7. 14PDFMiner16%

Mention rate by model and question

Share of each model's answers on the question that named it · Hover a cell for the count

Question	Claude Haiku 5.5	GPT-6 Luna	Gemini 4 Argon	Qwen 3.8 Flash	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash	GLM-5.3	Kimi K3	MiniMax M3	Mistral Large 4	Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Best Python libraries for reading and filling PDF files	25		13		25	13	25	25	13	25

Does the wording matter?

Share of answers that named it under each way of asking the question · Hover a cell for the exact wording

Question	List request	Buyer asking for advice	Search query	Worth paying for?
Best Python libraries for reading and filling PDF files			65

Head to head

Against the products named most often on the same questions

PDFMiner vs PyMuPDFPDFMiner vs ReportLabPDFMiner vs pdfplumberPDFMiner vs pypdfPDFMiner vs borbPDFMiner vs pikepdf

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