mc-pdf2txt 0.2.0

Multi-column PDF to Text

mc-pdf2txt

Convert multi-column pdf to text with poppler and tesseract.

Install

(1) Install dependencies:

Install poppler.

sudo apt install poppler-utils

Install tesseract-ocr

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

with the language data files of your choice, e.g.,

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr-jpn

(2) Install mc-pdf2txt

To make mc-pdf2txt compatible with both docopt and docopt-ng, dependencies on them are now explicitly extra dependencies.

If you know either docopt or docopt-ng is already installed on your system, just try the following:

pip3 install mc-pdf2txt

If you are unsure docopt or docopt-ng is installed on your system, try the following:

pip3 install mc-pdf2txt[docopt-ng]

Usage

Usage:
  mc-pdf2txt [options] <input>...

Options:
  -l LANG           Language, such as `eng`, `jpn`, or `eng+jpn`.
  <input>           Input PDF file.
  -o OUTPUT         Output text file.
  -r DPI            Resolution of temporary image file [default: 600].
  --timeout SEC     Timeout in sec to exec `pdftoppm` [default: 60].
  --page-separator LINE     String to be output as page separator [default: ---].
  --psm VALUE       Page segmentation mode of `tessoract-ocr` [default: 3].
  --verbose         Verbose.