One thing I've noticed with pdfminer is that it can have horrible load times for some PDFs. I've seen 20 page PDFs take upwards of 45 seconds due to layout anal

One thing I've noticed with pdfminer is that it can have horrible load times for some PDFs. I've seen 20 page PDFs take upwards of 45 seconds due to layout analysis. It's anaysis engine is also decent, but it takes newlines into account in weird ways sometimes - especially if you're asking for vertical text analysis