pdfluent-extract

PDF content extraction — text with positions, images, and full-text search.

This crate is part of the PDFluent commercial Rust PDF SDK.

Free for evaluation. Production use requires a valid license.

What it does

Extracts text content from PDFs with positional metadata (bounding boxes, fonts, sizes), embedded images, and provides full-text search APIs. Supports ligature decomposition and ToUnicode-based character mapping.

Status

Beta. Production-grade for text extraction (≥95% match vs Poppler on the 20K-PDF benchmark corpus).

Usage

Most users do not depend on this crate directly. Use the pdfluent facade:

use pdfluent::prelude::*;

For low-level access, see https://pdfluent.com/docs.

Licensing

• Free for evaluation, development, and testing
• Production use requires a valid PDFluent commercial license
• Redistribution requires the OEM Redistribution add-on

See LICENSE for full terms, or visit https://pdfluent.com/terms.

Links

• Main crate: https://crates.io/crates/pdfluent
• Documentation: https://pdfluent.com/docs
• Trial: https://pdfluent.com/trial
• Pricing: https://pdfluent.com/pricing