textgetter

textgetter v0.0.1

This python package can be used for extracting text from PDF/TIF,jpg and png files.

How to use

get output as txt files

from textgetter.gettxt import img_txt_extract
from textgetter.gettxt import tif_txt_extract
from textgetter.gettxt import pdf_txt_extract

if __name__ == "__main__":
    
    # use img_txt_extract for extracting text from images like jpg,png etc
    img_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ['jpeg','png'],ocr_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe',
                    verbose=True)
    # use tif_txt_extract for extracting text from tif files
    tif_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)
    # use pdf_txt_extract for extracting text from pdf files
    pdf_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)

get output as docx files

from textgetter.getdocx import img_txt_extract
from textgetter.getdocx import tif_txt_extract
from textgetter.getdocx import pdf_txt_extract

if __name__ == "__main__":

    # use img_txt_extract for extracting text from images like jpg,png etc
    img_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ['jpeg','png'], verbose=True)
    # use tif_txt_extract for extracting text from tif files
    tif_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ocr_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe',
                    verbose=True)
    # use pdf_txt_extract for extracting text from pdf files
    pdf_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)

get output as csv files

from textgetter.getcsv import img_txt_extract
from textgetter.getcsv import tif_txt_extract
from textgetter.getcsv import pdf_txt_extract

if __name__ == "__main__":

   # use img_txt_extract for extracting text from images like jpg,png etc
    img_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ['jpeg','png'], verbose=True)
    # use tif_txt_extract for extracting text from tif files
    tif_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)
    # use pdf_txt_extract for extracting text from pdf files
    pdf_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ocr_path='C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe',
                    verbose=True)

get output as excel files

from textgetter.getexcel import img_txt_extract
from textgetter.getexcel import tif_txt_extract
from textgetter.getexcel import pdf_txt_extract

if __name__ == "__main__":

    # use img_txt_extract for extracting text from images like jpg,png etc
    img_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', ['jpeg','png'], verbose=True)
    # use tif_txt_extract for extracting text from tif files
    tif_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)
    # use pdf_txt_extract for extracting text from pdf files
    pdf_txt_extract('/home/user/test', '/home/user/output', verbose=True)

Arguments

img_txt_extract

• input_files_path - folder path for input files e.g., '/home/user/test'
• output_files_path - folder path for output files e.g., '/home/user/output'
• file_extensions - list of file extensions from input folder e.g., ['jpeg','png']
• ocr_path - path of tesseract ocr (Windows only) defualte.g., 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe' , if linux ignore this argument
• verbose - for printing logs e.g., True/False\

tif_txt_extract and pdf_txt_extract

• input_files_path - folder path for input files e.g., '/home/user/test'
• output_files_path - folder path for output files e.g., '/home/user/output'
• ocr_path - path of tesseract ocr (Windows only) e.g., 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe', if linux ignore this argument
• verbose - for printing logs e.g., True/False

Requirements

This package uses poppler for reading pdf files, for windows platform poppler is included in the package but for linux we have to install it manually.

How to install poppler

We can download poppler from poppler

OR

We can install poppler using below command

sudo apt-get install python-poppler

How to install tesseract ocr

This package uses tesseract for extracting text from files, we have to install it manually for both windows and linux platforms.

Use this link to install tesseract ocr for Windows OS

Use below command for Linux OS

sudo apt install tesseract-ocr
sudo apt install libtesseract-dev