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A python library for extracting text from PDFs without losing the formatting of the PDF content.

Project description

Multilingual PDF to Text.

Install Package from Pypi

  1. Install it using pip.
pip install multilingual-pdf2text

The library uses Tesseract which can be installed by following instructions:

Tesseract Installation

Example Usage

  1. Use it in your code
from multilingual_pdf2text.pdf2text import PDF2Text
from multilingual_pdf2text.models.document_model.document import Document
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

def main():
    ## create document for extraction with configurations
    pdf_document = Document(
        document_path='/Users/shahrukh/Desktop/multilingual-pdf2text/example/example.pdf',
        language='spa'
        )
    pdf2text = PDF2Text(document=pdf_document)
    content = pdf2text.extract()
    print(content)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Tesseract supports the following languages: Code Language

  • afr Afrikaans
  • amh Amharic
  • ara Arabic
  • asm Assamese
  • aze Azerbaijani
  • aze_cyrl Azerbaijani - Cyrillic aze_
  • bel Belarusian
  • ben Bengali
  • bod Tibetan
  • bos Bosnian
  • bul Bulgarian
  • cat Catalan; Valencian
  • ceb Cebuano
  • ces Czech
  • chi_sim Chinese - Simplified chi_
  • chi_tra Chinese - Traditional chi_
  • chr Cherokee
  • cym Welsh
  • dan Danish
  • deu German
  • dzo Dzongkha
  • ell Greek, Modern (1453-)
  • eng English
  • enm English, Middle (1100-1500)
  • epo Esperanto
  • est Estonian
  • eus Basque
  • fas Persian
  • fin Finnish
  • fra French
  • frk German Fraktur
  • frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
  • gle Irish
  • glg Galician
  • grc Greek, Ancient (-1453)
  • guj Gujarati
  • hat Haitian; Haitian Creole
  • heb Hebrew
  • hin Hindi
  • hrv Croatian
  • hun Hungarian
  • iku Inuktitut
  • ind Indonesian
  • isl Icelandic
  • ita Italian
  • ita_old Italian - Old ita_
  • jav Javanese
  • jpn Japanese
  • kan Kannada
  • kat Georgian
  • kat_old Georgian - Old kat_
  • kaz Kazakh
  • khm Central Khmer
  • kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
  • kor Korean
  • kur Kurdish
  • lao Lao
  • lat Latin
  • lav Latvian
  • lit Lithuanian
  • mal Malayalam
  • mar Marathi
  • mkd Macedonian
  • mlt Maltese
  • msa Malay
  • mya Burmese
  • nep Nepali
  • nld Dutch; Flemish
  • nor Norwegian
  • ori Oriya
  • pan Panjabi; Punjabi
  • pol Polish
  • por Portuguese
  • pus Pushto; Pashto
  • ron Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
  • rus Russian
  • san Sanskrit
  • sin Sinhala; Sinhalese
  • slk Slovak
  • slv Slovenian
  • spa Spanish; Castilian
  • spa_old Spanish; Castilian - Old spa_
  • sqi Albanian
  • srp Serbian
  • srp_latn Serbian - Latin srp_
  • swa Swahili
  • swe Swedish
  • syr Syriac
  • tam Tamil
  • tel Telugu
  • tgk Tajik
  • tgl Tagalog
  • tha Thai
  • tir Tigrinya
  • tur Turkish
  • uig Uighur; Uyghur
  • ukr Ukrainian
  • urd Urdu
  • uzb Uzbek
  • uzb_cyrl Uzbek - Cyrillic uzb_
  • vie Vietnamese
  • yid Yiddish

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