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PDFMiner is a text extraction tool for PDF documents.

Build Status PyPI

Warning: As of 2020, PDFMiner is not actively maintained. The code still works, but this project is largely dormant. For the active project, check out its fork <a href="https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six">pdfminer.six</a>.

Features:

How to Use:

  1. > pip install pdfminer
  2. > pdf2txt.py samples/simple1.pdf

Command Line Syntax:

pdf2txt.py

pdf2txt.py extracts all the texts that are rendered programmatically. It also extracts the corresponding locations, font names, font sizes, writing direction (horizontal or vertical) for each text segment. It does not recognize text in images. A password needs to be provided for restricted PDF documents.

> pdf2txt.py [-P password] [-o output] [-t text|html|xml|tag]
             [-O output_dir] [-c encoding] [-s scale] [-R rotation]
             [-Y normal|loose|exact] [-p pagenos] [-m maxpages]
             [-S] [-C] [-n] [-A] [-V]
             [-M char_margin] [-L line_margin] [-W word_margin]
             [-F boxes_flow] [-d]
             input.pdf ...

dumppdf.py

dumppdf.py is used for debugging PDFs. It dumps all the internal contents in pseudo-XML format.

> dumppdf.py [-P password] [-a] [-p pageid] [-i objid]
             [-o output] [-r|-b|-t] [-T] [-O directory] [-d]
             input.pdf ...

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