List of all font names

[EmanueleGusso]

Hi everybody,
first of all thank you and congratulations for this wonderful work.
The big question is: is there a list of all possible font names that pdplumber can recognize? It would be extremely useful for my purpose.
Thank you very much in advance!

[samkit-jain]

Hi @EmanueleGusso Appreciate your interest in the library. You may use the following code to get all the fontnames in a PDF

import pdfplumber

pdf = pdfplumber.open("my_file.pdf")

print(set(char["fontname"] for char in pdf.chars))

There's no direct method available to fetch the fontnames so you'll have to go through all the characters and then fetch the fontnames from them using the fontname property in a char object.

[EmanueleGusso]

Thank you very much for your prompt response! This will be definitely useful for my work.
So you mean that there is not a list of all possible (not just in a specific pdf file) fontnames that pdfplumber can recognize?

[samkit-jain]

I am not sure if there exists a list of all the font names that pdfminer.six (library on which pdfplumber depends) can recognise.

[samkit-jain]

Because there can be hundreds of new fonts that are being developed every day and the library just reads whatever is readable.