On 14 Apr 2016 02:18, "Mpaa" <mpaa.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> Is there any preference for a python pdf library, in case one would like
to add pdf file processing to pywikibot?

I have no preference, or experience.
Pypdf2 seems to be the most commonly used.
There are a few worrying Python 3 encoding bugs.

> Or is it good enough, if possible, to rely on pdfinfo (which I guess is
linux-only)?

For a script, using pdfinfo is definately good enough IMO. reflinks uses
pdfinfo.

There are precompiled binaries available for windows at
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

--
John
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