Is pypdfium2 safe to use?

pypdfium2 has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.12.1). DepScope rates its health at 69/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of pypdfium2?

The latest version of pypdfium2 is 5.12.1, released 2026-07-17.

Does pypdfium2 have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pypdfium2.

Is pypdfium2 deprecated?

No, pypdfium2 is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.12.1 (2026-07-17).

What are alternatives to pypdfium2?

Popular alternatives to pypdfium2 in PyPI include: urllib3, certifi, charset-normalizer, botocore, pygments.

What license does pypdfium2 use?

pypdfium2 is licensed under BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, dependency licenses.

pypdfium2

pypiv5.12.1

Python bindings to PDFium

License BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, dependency licensespermissive128 versions1 maintainers0 deps

pypdfium2-team/pypdfium2

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (69/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (69/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

4/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

92%

GitHub stars

753

single author dominance

Quality signals

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/pypdfium2

pypdfium2

pypiv5.12.1

Python bindings to PDFium

License BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, dependency licensespermissive128 versions1 maintainers0 deps

pypdfium2-team/pypdfium2

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (69/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (69/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

4/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

92%

GitHub stars

753

single author dominance

Quality signals

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/pypdfium2