PDF2Text Converter

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This Python utility, pdf2text.py, converts PDF documents into plain human-readable text format by processing line breaks in words and sentences. The script is capable of reading other file types too, but it's specially equipped to handle PDFs.

Features

• Extracts text content from PDF and other document formats supported by Apache Tika.
• Corrects word breaks that occur due to hyphenation supported by wordninja( e.g., "low- power" -> "low-power", "im- plement" -> "implement").
• Optionally corrects sentence breaks that occur due to newline characters.

Installation

1. Install the package and requirements by running:

   pip install git+https://github.com/OnlyAR/pdf2text.git
   

   or use ssh:

   pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/OnlyAR/pdf2text.git
   

2. Make sure the java environment is installed and the correct path is configured to execute the java command.

Usage

To convert a file to text, use the pdf2text function.

from pdf2text import pdf2text

file_path = 'path_to_your_pdf_file.pdf'
with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
    text_content = pdf2text(file, word_line_break=True, sentence_line_break=False)
    print(text_content)

For further details and options, please refer to the Chinese .