PDF Text Extraction

Small utility for extracting text from PDF files with multiple backend support.

Installation

pip install pdf-extraction-tool

Or from source:

python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1
pip install -e ".[dev,backends]"

Usage

# Basic usage (uses PyPDF2 backend)
extract-pdf path\to\file.pdf

# Use pdfminer backend (requires pdfminer.six)
extract-pdf --backend pdfminer path\to\file.pdf

# Extract from encrypted PDF
extract-pdf --password secret path\to\file.pdf

The extracted text is written to the terminal. Redirect it to a file when needed:

extract-pdf path\to\file.pdf > output.txt

Backends

Verify

python -m py_compile extract_pdf.py
extract-pdf --help

Keep source PDFs and generated output outside Git unless they are explicitly safe to share.