[cochne]

You’re in for it! I highly recommend checking out mupdf, it was one of the more pleasant Python libraries I dealt with for this purpose.

[cgdae]

I think you might mean PyMuPDF (https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF), a Python library built on top of the MuPDF C library (https://mupdf.com/).

PyMuPDF and MuPDF are both available under dual open source AGPL and commercial licenses. They have been around for many years and are under continual development.

[Disclaimer, i work for Artifex, who wrote MuPDF and recently acquired PyMuPDF.]