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Extract text from PDF document using PDFMiner
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| """ | |
| Extract PDF text using PDFMiner. Adapted from | |
| http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5725278/python-help-using-pdfminer-as-a-library | |
| """ | |
| from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter#process_pdf | |
| from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage | |
| from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter | |
| from pdfminer.layout import LAParams | |
| from cStringIO import StringIO | |
| def pdf_to_text(pdfname): | |
| # PDFMiner boilerplate | |
| rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() | |
| sio = StringIO() | |
| codec = 'utf-8' | |
| laparams = LAParams() | |
| device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, sio, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) | |
| interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device) | |
| # Extract text | |
| fp = file(pdfname, 'rb') | |
| for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp): | |
| interpreter.process_page(page) | |
| fp.close() | |
| # Get text from StringIO | |
| text = sio.getvalue() | |
| # Cleanup | |
| device.close() | |
| sio.close() | |
| return text |
How do you extract a URL present in a PDF? For ex. if you are trying to extract the URL present in the left hand panel of the pdf version of a LinkedIn Profile using PDF miner?
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I'm so glad to announce that I released Python Multiple and Large PDF Documents Text Extraction solution on Github:
https://github.com/ahmedkhemiri95/PDFs-TextExtract