Is this project still maintained?

[einsweniger]

Hi there!
I wonder if somebody still maintains the project, as Issues and PRs pile up and commits are few and far between.

@mstamy2: if you can't get around to actively maintain the project, would you mind to appoint a volunteer for maintenance?

Just asking, because I'd have some issues to report, but I won't if development was ceased.

best regards,
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[claird]

No: in the short term, PyPDF2 is largely unmaintained.

I will happily reboot it, though. With a little indication--just a few e-mail follow-ups--of how much difference it makes to users to keep it going, I'll resume maintenance from Matthew. In fact, I have strong ideas about how we can make PyPDF2 better than ever. My biggest question: how many users care?

[moodh]

We use it daily but due to the state of the project we've decided to change to itext or a more mature library. Personally I like this library and I hope it'll get rebooted. :)

[einsweniger]

I played with the thought to rewrite it, or at least create a more pythonic interface.
Initially, i just wanted to access the AcroForm fields, but trying to recurse the tree feels really unwieldy and a little inconsistent.
But if I were to rewrite it, I'd probably drop python2, as I never learned that.
I'd also suggest to integrate at least some of the Isartor or veraPDF files for testing.

[Rob1080]

I'm still using it in a few projects.

[BrianPainter]

I use it in several projects. Are there other python alternatives? Mostly I need to merge separate PDF's into one, adding newly created PDF's (ReportLab) along the way.

[oscardssmith]

I would really like it to be supported as well. I don't know enough about pdfs to be of much help though.

[sekrause]

Judging from the number of pull requests there still seems to be a lot of interest in this project.

We're also still using it in a project, but were already starting to think about migrating away simply because this project looks so unmaintained.

[tataganesh]

I have been using this for several of my projects. It would be awesome if it is continued to be maintained. One of the issues that has been bugging me for a while is #226. @claird So, have we still not got enough users who want this project to be maintained?

[FelixSchwarz]

I'm also using this and I'd hate to use another C-based library. Also there are some other projects like WeasyPrint which require pypdf2.

[bdheeman]

I use it as part of pdfbooklet, but also wrote a python script pdfmeta.py for viewing and modifying metadata :-)

Although, the qpdf is required for cups now a days, on Linux, but I love using PyPDF2 like anything for merging cover pages and PDF books, sometimes 100 page segments for large books, I create from scanned pages using jbig2enc ;-)

[soferio]

We use it for a new webapp (in Python 2.7). One of the nice features it has is bookmark addition. Would be great if it were kickstarted again.

[subCdteOso]

I'm hoping to use this library for part of an automated manufacturing process. The hope is to use PDFs as a way for customers to upload multi-layered design files. We'd need support for Layers/Optional Content Groups though.

[snoyes]

I use it to automatically merge my monthly expense reports with receipts. However, some of those PDFs now produce an error in PyPDF2, even though they are readable with Adobe Acrobat Reader, which has me looking for either a bug fix or a different library.

[mstamy2]

I've opened a discussion on #385

[MartinThoma]

I've just became the maintainer of this project :-)