parsee-pdf-reader 0.1.2

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Parsee PDF Reader

This PDF reader was designed to overcome the common problems when trying to extract tables from PDFs.

We started initially with a focus on financial/numeric tables, so this is where this PDF reader works best for.

This is an early release, so we will be still making major changes.

Installation

Recommended install with poetry: https://python-poetry.org/docs/

poetry add parsee-pdf-reader

Alternatively:

pip install parsee-pdf-reader

Extracting Tables and Paragraphs

Extracting tables and paragraphs of text can be done in one line:

from pdf_reader import get_elements_from_pdf
elements = get_elements_from_pdf("FILE_PATH")

If you are processing a PDF that needs OCR but no elements or just very few are being returned, you can force OCR like this:

elements = get_elements_from_pdf("FILE_PATH", force_ocr=True)

Methodology

Combines pdfminer, pypdf and tesseract and augments them with the introduction of table elements, which are treated separately from the rest of the text. As a result, the output contains basically two types of elements: tables and text paragraphs. We believe this separation is important as otherwise the tabular information is not extracted very precisely and concepts such as columns and rows are usually lost.