pdf2docx-headless 0.5.8

Open source Python library converting pdf to docx.

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pdf2docx-headless

• Extract data from PDF with PyMuPDF, e.g. text, images and drawings
• Parse layout with rule, e.g. sections, paragraphs, images and tables
• Generate docx with python-docx

Difference to original pdf2docx

Important: This package is a fork of the original package, using opencv-python-headless as dependency instead of opencv-python to remove any gui dependencies.

Reference issue

Features

• Parse and re-create page layout

  • page margin
  • section and column (1 or 2 columns only)
  • page header and footer [TODO]

• Parse and re-create paragraph

  • OCR text [TODO]
  • text in horizontal/vertical direction: from left to right, from bottom to top
  • font style, e.g. font name, size, weight, italic and color
  • text format, e.g. highlight, underline, strike-through
  • list style [TODO]
  • external hyper link
  • paragraph horizontal alignment (left/right/center/justify) and vertical spacing

• Parse and re-create image

  • in-line image
  • image in Gray/RGB/CMYK mode
  • transparent image
  • floating image, i.e. picture behind text

• Parse and re-create table

  • border style, e.g. width, color
  • shading style, i.e. background color
  • merged cells
  • vertical direction cell
  • table with partly hidden borders
  • nested tables

• Parsing pages with multi-processing

It can also be used as a tool to extract table contents since both table content and format/style is parsed.

Limitations

• Text-based PDF file
• Left to right language
• Normal reading direction, no word transformation / rotation
• Rule-based method can't 100% convert the PDF layout

Documentation

• Installation
• Quickstart
  • Convert PDF
  • Extract table
  • Command Line Interface
• Technical Documentation (In Chinese)
• API Documentation

Sample