pdf2docx

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

Features

• Parse and re-create paragraph

  • 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
  • text alignment, e.g. left/right/center/justify
  • paragraph layout: horizontal alignment and vertical spacing
  • list style
  • href link

• 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

• 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

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

pdf2docx can be used as either CLI or a library.

Command Line Interface

$ pdf2docx --help

NAME
    pdf2docx - Command line interface for pdf2docx.

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx COMMAND | -

DESCRIPTION
    Command line interface for pdf2docx.

COMMANDS
    COMMAND is one of the following:

     convert
       Convert pdf file to docx file.

     debug
       Convert one PDF page and plot layout information for debugging.

     table
       Extract table content from pdf pages.

• By range of pages

Specify pages range by --start (from the first page if omitted) and --end (to the last page if omitted). Note the page index is zero-based by default, but can turn it off by --zero_based_index=False, i.e. the first page index starts from 1.

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx # all pages

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 # from the second page to the end

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --end=3 # from the first page to the third (index=2)

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 --end=3 # the second and third pages

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 --end=3 --zero_based_index=False # the first and second pages

• By page numbers

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --pages=0,2,4 # the first, third and 5th pages

• Multi-Processing

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --multi_processing=True # default count of CPU

$ pdf2docx convert test.pdf test.docx --multi_processing=True --cpu_count=4

Python Library

We can use either the Converter class or a wrapped method parse().

• Converter

from pdf2docx import Converter

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

# convert pdf to docx
cv = Converter(pdf_file)
cv.convert(docx_file, start=0, end=None)
cv.close()

• Wrapped method parse()

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=None)

Or just to extract tables,

from pdf2docx import Converter

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

cv = Converter(pdf_file)
tables = cv.extract_tables(start=0, end=1)
cv.close()

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