Read and extract text from pdf
Hi, I have a problem :), I just want to extract text from pdf file with python. There is differents libraries for that but it doesn't work... pyPdf and pdfTools, I don't know why but it doesn't works with some pdf... For example space chars are delete in the text.. Pdf playground : I don't understand how it work. If you have an idea, a tutorial, a library or anything who can help me to do that. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Read and extract text from pdf
Hi,
Thanks I use that and is all right :)
import commands
txt = commands.getoutput('ps2ascii tmp.pdf')
print txt
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Re: Read and extract text from pdf
Julien ARNOUX: >I have a problem :), I just want to extract text from pdf file with >python. There is differents libraries for that but it doesn't work... > >pyPdf and pdfTools, I don't know why but it doesn't works with some >pdf... Text can be represented in different ways in PDF: as tagged text, bitmap and vector images, and even algorithms (IIRC). Most tools will only be able to retrieve text represented as tagged text. So some tools may work on some texts in some files and fail on others. -- René Pijlman Wat wil jij leren? http://www.leren.nl -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Read and extract text from pdf
You can use Ghostscript for that purpose. Look at ps2ascii script (or batch file) in the Ghostscript distribution. You can either call Ghostscript from command line or use its DLL (don't know if Python binding already exists...). The limitations the previous author has mentioned, however, still apply. Avishay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Read and extract text from pdf
There is a pdftotext executable, at least on Linux. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
