PDF text extractor.
Project description
pdftxt
The goal of this project is to provide an api to extract text from specific regions of a pdf document/page and a cli to assist identifying the location of text within a document.
Installation
... pip install pdftxt
Basic Command Line Usage
Let's say we have a PDF file (PDF-DOC.pdf) that looks like this:
The pdftxt
command:
... pdftxt PDF-DOC.pdf
Will output a visual layout of the pdf document's pages and text elements to an html page:
API Usage
from pathlib import Path
from pdftxt import api
filepath = 'tests/Word_PDF.pdf'
with api.PdfTxtContext(filepath) as pdf:
for page in pdf:
# To fetch text objects from specific region
# of the page, first define the region:
region = api.Region(400, 300, 512, 317)
# Initialize layout parameters:
params = api.PdfTxtParams()
# Then analyze that area of the page for text objects:
text = page.analyze(region, params)
# Do whatever it is we need to do with the results:
for txt in text:
print(txt.text)
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