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Text Processing 15 projects

Mojibake like "café" is ftfy's to fix, and charset-normalizer detects encodings. For fuzzy matching, add RapidFuzz to your Python text processing libraries.
Universal character encoding detector, and a dependency of requests.
jawah/github.com/jawah/charset_normalizer /806 stars /
Python character encoding detector.
chardet/github.com/chardet/chardet /2,680 stars /
Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
rspeer/github.com/rspeer/python-ftfy /4,067 stars /
Rapid fuzzy string matching using various string metrics, with a C++ core.
rapidfuzz/github.com/rapidfuzz/RapidFuzz /4,186 stars /
(Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
python/docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html /77,691 stars /
An implementation of figlet written in Python.
pwaller/github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet /1,593 stars /
An internationalization library for Python.
python-babel/github.com/python-babel/babel /1,471 stars /
A generic syntax highlighter.
pygments/github.com/pygments/pygments /2,219 stars /
A Python library for creating PEG parsers.
pyparsing/github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing /2,497 stars /
A non-validating SQL parser.
andialbrecht/github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse /4,022 stars /
Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
daviddrysdale/github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers /3,776 stars /
Easy, generic parser combinator library for creating parsers.
python-parsy/github.com/python-parsy/parsy /455 stars /
A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
un33k/github.com/un33k/python-slugify /1,628 stars /
ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
avian2/github.com/avian2/unidecode /611 stars /
A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
skorokithakis/github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid /2,196 stars /

HTML Manipulation 5 projects

Scraped HTML, however broken, parses in Beautiful Soup on lxml's parser. JustHTML packs a sanitizer into a Python HTML library and runs it by default.
A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
lxml/github.com/lxml/lxml /3,071 stars /
Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/
Makes working with XML feel like working with JSON.
martinblech/github.com/martinblech/xmltodict /5,758 stars /
Safely adds untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup.
pallets/github.com/pallets/markupsafe /701 stars /
A pure Python HTML5 parser that sanitizes untrusted HTML by default.
EmilStenstrom/github.com/EmilStenstrom/justhtml /1,161 stars /

File Format Processing 19 projects

PDFs you merge, split, or encrypt need only pypdf. Which Python file format library you need beyond that depends on whether you read a file or create it.
Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
eliben/github.com/eliben/pyelftools /2,290 stars /
A module for tabular datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
jazzband/github.com/jazzband/tablib /4,759 stars /
Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
microsoft/github.com/microsoft/markitdown /192,898 stars /
A thin wrapper for pandoc, the universal document converter.
JessicaTegner/github.com/JessicaTegner/pypandoc /1,154 stars /
Library for converting documents into structured data.
docling-project/github.com/docling-project/docling /69,824 stars /
A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
jmcnamara/github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter /3,990 stars /
Creates, reads, and updates Microsoft Word (.docx) files.
python-openxml/github.com/python-openxml/python-docx /5,752 stars /
Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.
scanny/github.com/scanny/python-pptx /3,570 stars /
A library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF pages.
py-pdf/github.com/py-pdf/pypdf /10,279 stars /
A fast MuPDF-based library for extracting, rendering, and editing PDFs and other documents.
pymupdf/github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF /11,015 stars /
An open-source library for generating PDFs and graphics.
docs.reportlab.com/
A community-maintained fork of PDFMiner for extracting information from PDF documents.
pdfminer/github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six /7,047 stars /
A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
Kozea/github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint /9,740 stars /
Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions, and syntax plugins.
executablebooks/github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py /1,387 stars /
A Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.
Python-Markdown/github.com/Python-Markdown/markdown /4,254 stars /
A fast yet powerful Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins.
lepture/github.com/lepture/mistune /3,080 stars /
(Python standard library) Parse TOML files.
python/docs.python.org/3/library/tomllib.html /77,691 stars /
A full-featured YAML framework for Python.
yaml/github.com/yaml/pyyaml /2,964 stars /

File Manipulation 6 projects

Without installing anything, two Python file manipulation libraries cover paths and file types by name: pathlib and mimetypes. python-magic reads the bytes.
(Python standard library) A cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
python/docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html /77,691 stars /
Simple, modern and fast file watching and code reload in Python.
samuelcolvin/github.com/samuelcolvin/watchfiles /2,556 stars /
API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
gorakhargosh/github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog /7,429 stars /
(Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
python/docs.python.org/3/library/mimetypes.html /77,691 stars /
A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
ahupp/github.com/ahupp/python-magic /2,922 stars /
Detects file content types with a deep-learning model.
google/github.com/google/magika /18,752 stars /

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