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The asyncio library and async/await syntax have matured. Modern Python applications utilize coroutines for I/O-bound high-concurrency tasks, distinguishing between:

writer = PdfWriter() for pdf_path in list_of_pdfs: reader = PdfReader(pdf_path) for page in reader.pages: writer.add_page(page) writer.add_metadata(reader.metadata) # preserves source metadata The asyncio library and async/await syntax have matured

docs = [pdfium.PdfDocument(str(p)) for p in Path("manuscript/").glob("*.pdf")] text = "\n\n".join(page.get_textpage().get_text_range() for doc in docs for page in doc) That era is over

In the landscape of document processing, PDF remains the undisputed king of fixed-layout exchange. Yet, for Python developers, working with PDFs has long been a fragmented experience—low-level libraries, cryptic specifications, and performance bottlenecks. That era is over. This is vastly faster than generating from scratch

PDF as a template engine. pdfrw reads AcroForm fields from existing PDF forms, populates them, and writes a new PDF without breaking JavaScript or calculations. This is vastly faster than generating from scratch for complex government or medical forms.