poppdf 0.17.8

A wrapper around the poppler's and pdftoimage, pdftphtml and pdftotext command line tools to extract informaton from pdf

poppdf

A python (3.6+) module that wraps poppler's pdftoimage, pdftohtml and pdftotext to extract informations from PDF.

What information is extracted

• image
• text
• infromation about the position of various text lines

How to install

pip install poppdf

Windows

Windows users will have to build or download poppler for Windows. I recommend @oschwartz10612 version which is the most up-to-date. You will then have to add the bin/ folder to PATH or use poppler_path = r"C:\path\to\poppler-xx\bin" as an argument in convert_from_path.

Mac

Mac users will have to install poppler for Mac.

Linux

Most distros ship with pdftoppm and pdftocairo. If they are not installed, refer to your package manager to install poppler-utils

Platform-independant (Using conda)

1. Install poppler: conda install -c conda-forge poppler
2. Install pdf2image: pip install pdf2image

How does it work?

from pdf2image import image_from_path, xml_from_path, text_from_path

from poppdf.pdfDocument import PdfDocument

Then simply do:

pdf = PdfDocument('example.pdf')

And

print(pdf.pdf_pages[1].text)