slate: the easiest way to get text from PDFs in Python

THIS PROJECT IS A FORK OF slate

Original project is https://github.com/timClicks/slate . It is not supported Python3. I thank the original writer @timClicks and other contributors.

Slate is a Python package that simplifies the process of extracting text from PDF files. It depends on the PDFMiner package.

Slate provides one class, PDF. PDF takes a file-like object and will extract all text from the document, presentating each page as a string of text:

>>> with open('example.pdf', 'rb') as f:
...    doc = slate.PDF(f)
...
>>> doc
[..., ..., ...]
>>> doc[1]
'Text from page 2...'

If your pdf is password protected, pass the password as the second argument:

>>> with open('secrets.pdf', 'rb') as f:
...     doc = slate.PDF(f, 'password')
...
>>> doc[0]
"My mother doesn't know this, but..."

If you would like access to the images, font files and other information, then take some time to learn the PDFMiner API.

Getting simple things done, like extracting the text is quite complex. The program is not designed to return Python objects, which makes interfacing things irritating.
It’s an extremely complete set of tools, with multiple and moderately steep learning curves.
It’s not written with hackability in mind.

For a detailed explanation of source distributions (sdists) and built distributions (wheels), please see the package formats documentation.

Table of built distributions (wheels) for slate3k 0.5.3
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