pdftotext
Simple PDF text extraction (by jalan)
PyPDF2
A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2] (by mstamy2)
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| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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pdftotext
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Is it possible (and how) to extract highlighted text from a PDF (via API)?
I’ve used https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext for automated pdf text parsing before, but I wasn’t doing anything with highlighting and I’m not sure what the formatting for that looks like or if it would be simple or even present in the output of this library. You could give it a test run on one of your pdfs and see though. Best of luck; pdf text extraction is a nightmare, especially if they don’t all come from the exact same source and generation system, since they’re not really text documents.
PyPDF2
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Create PDF from a list of images
use PDF::FromImage;...my $pdf = PDF::FromImage->new;$pdf->load_images(@allPagesDir);$pdf->write_file($bookName . '.pdf'); I need to do something very similar to this, but in Python. I know the pyPdf module, but I would like something simple.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing pdftotext and PyPDF2 you can also consider the following projects:
PyPDF2 - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files
pikepdf - A Python library for reading and writing PDF, powered by QPDF
pdfminer.six - Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched [Moved to: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF]
OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
borb - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory