pdf2docx

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

1 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

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

2 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

3 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 library

''' With this library installed with 
    `pip install pdf2docx`, or `python setup.py install`.
'''

from pdf2docx.main import parse

pdf_file = '/path/to/sample.pdf'
docx_file = 'path/to/sample.docx'

# convert pdf to docx
parse(pdf_file, docx_file, start=0, end=1)

Or just to extract tables,

from pdf2docx.main import extract_tables

pdf_file = '/path/to/sample.pdf'

tables = extract_tables(pdf_file, start=0, end=1)
for table in tables:
    print(table)

# outputs
...
[['Input ', None, None, None, None, None], 
['Description A ', 'mm ', '30.34 ', '35.30 ', '19.30 ', '80.21 '],
['Description B ', '1.00 ', '5.95 ', '6.16 ', '16.48 ', '48.81 '],
['Description C ', '1.00 ', '0.98 ', '0.94 ', '1.03 ', '0.32 '],
['Description D ', 'kg ', '0.84 ', '0.53 ', '0.52 ', '0.33 '],
['Description E ', '1.00 ', '0.15 ', None, None, None],
['Description F ', '1.00 ', '0.86 ', '0.37 ', '0.78 ', '0.01 ']]

4 Sample