pdf2docx

pdf2docx-test pdf2docx-publish GitHub

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
- vertical direction cell
- table with partly hidden borders
Rebuild page layout in docx
- text in horizontal direction: from left to right
- text in vertical direction: from bottom to top
- in-line image
- paragraph layout: horizontal and vertical spacing
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 only
Normal reading direction only
- horizontal/vertical paragraph/line/word
- no word transformation, e.g. rotation
No floating images

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 test.pdf --multi_processing=True

$ pdf2docx --help

NAME
    pdf2docx - Run the pdf2docx parser.

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx PDF_FILE <flags>

DESCRIPTION
    Run the pdf2docx parser.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
    PDF_FILE
        PDF filename to read from

FLAGS
    --docx_file=DOCX_FILE
        DOCX filename to write to
    --start=START
        first page to process, starting from zero
    --end=END
        last page to process, starting from zero
    --pages=PAGES
        range of pages
    --multi_processing=MULTI_PROCESSING

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 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 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 ']]

Sample

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

pdf2docx-0.4.1.tar.gz (783.4 kB view details)

Uploaded Sep 5, 2020 Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

The dropdown lists show the available interpreters, ABIs, and platforms. Enable javascript to be able to filter the list of wheel files.

pdf2docx-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl (84.5 kB view details)

Uploaded Sep 5, 2020 Python 3

File details

Details for the file pdf2docx-0.4.1.tar.gz.

File metadata

Download URL: pdf2docx-0.4.1.tar.gz
Upload date: Sep 5, 2020
Size: 783.4 kB
Tags: Source
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
Uploaded via: twine/3.2.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.24.0 setuptools/49.3.1 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.48.2 CPython/3.8.5

File hashes

Hashes for pdf2docx-0.4.1.tar.gz
Algorithm	Hash digest
SHA256	`16392e39dcfe2f0f05fc4497418226ca9600ceabf3d6af96d9191ccfb71585c4`
MD5	`3eeca5311142113a87f217bee5eb2e9c`
BLAKE2b-256	`0190267fef9e67d22d85efabee0af53f29c88973cb0c498526b82b69ce1344f5`

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file pdf2docx-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

Download URL: pdf2docx-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl
Upload date: Sep 5, 2020
Size: 84.5 kB
Tags: Python 3
Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
Uploaded via: twine/3.2.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.24.0 setuptools/49.3.1 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.48.2 CPython/3.8.5

File hashes

Hashes for pdf2docx-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm	Hash digest
SHA256	`25595df5e54ad47a49ed9516c83dae08bd90c787cb199d2ac589b5a0f031c2af`
MD5	`e43f060df46589190779a6cd66d34707`
BLAKE2b-256	`a73f7014024056488ea8755f5235b5c03aa49f32f33f93398d1074ae4d0730d7`