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+## Prominent Embedders
+
+pypdfium2 is used by prominent embedders such as
+[langchain](https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain),
+[nougat](https://github.com/facebookresearch/nougat),
+[pdfplumber](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber),
+and [doctr](https://github.com/mindee/doctr/).
+
+This results in pypdfium2 being part of a large dependency tree.
+
+
 ## Thanks to[^thanks_to]
 
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