pdfsyntax
pdfplumber
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| 420 | 5,603 | |
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| MIT License | MIT License |
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pdfsyntax
- Show HN: PDFSyntax, a Python library to inspect and transform PDF files
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Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files
I never knew about the J number suffix in python: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#im... which it would appear is used to represent references: https://github.com/desgeeko/pdfsyntax/blob/main/tests/test_p...
I wish you good luck, this file format has tripped up many, many a developer. It blew up on a pdf I had lying around:
ValueError: could not convert string to float: b'5.0.0' -
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pdfsyntax – A Python PDF parsing library browse the internal structure of a PDF file
- Show HN: Browse the internal structure of a PDF file
pdfplumber
- Running OCR against PDFs and images directly in the browser
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Google Scholar PDF Reader
- [pdfplumber](https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber)
- Parsing dates with PDFminer
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How to Extract Data from Tables in a Public Record PDF
I recently published a story that was based on some data analysis I did of a report I obtained from the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services in VA. I wanted to share a quick walkthrough of how I extracted the data from tables in a PDF using a Python module called PDFplumber. I also uploaded a video to Youtube if you prefer that.
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Code to extract text from pdf to excel
I've been working with pdfplumber, which is built atop pdfminer.six. It allows one to break the page up into sections and extract text from them in turn, which may help keep columns separated better.
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I need to parse unstructured tables from a pdf into a json, what can I do
You could try pdfplumber
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Advanced PDF to Excel with documents and example code
I'm not sure if there is a way to reliably detect bold characters: https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/issues/724
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how do I automate extracting data from two pdfs and input into an excel sheet according to an order number
pdfplumber is also pretty good. It can help segment text a bit better than pdfminer can alone.
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Extracting particular things from pdf program?
To handle machine generated one, a possible package is pdfplumber.
- Convert PDF to text for parsing
What are some alternatives?
PyMuPDF - PyMuPDF is a high performance Python library for data extraction, analysis, conversion & manipulation of PDF (and other) documents.
PDFMiner - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.
sunfish - Sunfish: a Python Chess Engine in 111 lines of code
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
djot - A light markup language
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
mupdf - mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
i7j-rups - RUPS is an acronym for Reading and Updating PDF Syntax. RUPS is a tool built on top of iText® that allows you to look inside a PDF document and browse the different PDF objects and content streams.
py-pdf-parser - A Python tool to help extracting information from structured PDFs.
pdfquery - A fast and friendly PDF scraping library.