pdf2docx 0.0.1

parse PDF files to docx

pdf2docx

• Parse text, table and layout from PDF file with PyMuPDF
• Generate docx with python-docx

Features

• Parse and re-create text format
  • font style, e.g. font name, size, weight, italic and color
  • highlight, underline, strike-through converted from docx
  • highlight, underline, strike-through applied from PDF annotations
• Parse and re-create list style
• Parse and re-create table
  • border style, e.g. width, color
  • shading style, i.e. background color
  • merged cells
• Rebuild page layout in docx
  • paragraph layout: horizontal and vertical spacing
  • in-line image

Limitations

• text-based PDF file only
• Normal reading direction only
  • horizontal paragraph/line/word
  • no word transformation, e.g. rotation
• No floating images
• Full borders table only

Installation

From Pypi

$ pip install pdf2docx

From source code

Clone or download this project, and navigate to the root directory:

$ python setup.py install

Or install it in developing mode:

$ python setup.py develop

Uninstall

$ pip uninstall pdf2docx

Usage

By range of pages

$ pdf2docx test.pdf test.docx --start=5 --end=10

By page numbers

$ pdf2docx test.pdf test.docx --pages=5,7,9

$ pdf2docx --help

NAME
    pdf2docx - Run the pdf2docx parser

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx PDF_FILE DOCX_FILE <flags>

DESCRIPTION
    Run the pdf2docx parser

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
    PDF_FILE
        PDF filename to read from
    DOCX_FILE
        DOCX filename to write to

FLAGS
    --start=START
        first page to process, starting from zero
    --end=END
        last page to process, starting from zero
    --pages=PAGES
        range of pages

NOTES
    You can also use flags syntax for POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

As a source package

import os
from pdf2docx.reader import Reader
from pdf2docx.writer import Writer

dir_output = '/path/to/output/dir/'
filename = 'demo-text'
pdf_file = os.path.join(dir_output, f'{filename}.pdf')
docx_file = os.path.join(dir_output, f'{filename}.docx')

pdf = Reader(pdf_file, debug=True)  # debug mode to plot layout in new PDF file
docx = Writer()

for page in pdf[0:1]:
    # parse raw layout
    layout = pdf.parse(page)
    # re-create docx page
    docx.make_page(layout)

docx.save(docx_file)
pdf.close()

Sample

License

• GPL-3.0 License
• AGPL-3.0 License