PDF parser and analyzer
We fathom PDF
Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner. It is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. It focuses on getting and analyzing text data. Pdfminer.six extracts the text from a page directly from the sourcecode of the PDF. It can also be used to get the exact location, font or color of the text.
It is built in a modular way such that each component of pdfminer.six can be replaced easily. You can implement your own interpreter or rendering device that uses the power of pdfminer.six for other purposes than text analysis.
Check out the full documentation on Read the Docs.
Install Python 3.8 or newer.
Install pdfminer.six.
pip install pdfminer.six
(Optionally) install extra dependencies for extracting images.
pip install 'pdfminer.six[image]'
Use the command-line interface to extract text from pdf.
pdf2txt.py example.pdf
Or use it with Python.
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text
text = extract_text("example.pdf")
print(text)
Be sure to read the contribution guidelines.
This repository includes code from pyHanko
; the original license has been included here.