[Tutor] PDF to text conversion
Martin Walsh
mwalsh at mwalsh.org
Tue Apr 21 20:57:56 CEST 2009
Robert Berman wrote:
> Hello Emad,
>
> I have seriously looked at the documentation associated with pyPDF. This
> seems to have the page as its smallest element of work, and what i need
> is a line by line process to go from .PDF format to Text. I don't think
> pyPDF will meet my needs but thank you for bringing it to my attention.
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Robert Berman
Have you looked at pdfminer?
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html
Looks promising.
HTH,
Marty
>
> Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com
>> <mailto:bgailer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Robert Berman wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May
>> of 1988 to current date. Readings are taken twice weekly and
>> consist of the date taken mm/dd/yy and the results appearing
>> as a 10 character numeric + special characters sequence. This
>> is obviously an easy setup for a very small database
>> application with the date as the key, the result string as
>> the data.
>>
>> My problem is converting the PDF file into a text file which I
>> can then read and process. I do not see any free python
>> libraries having this capacity. I did see a PDFPILOT program
>> for Windows but this application is being developed on Linux
>> and should also run on Windows; so I do not want to
>> incorporate a Windows only application.
>>
>> I do not think i am breaking any new frontiers with this
>> application. Have any of you worked with such a library, or do
>> you know of one or two I can download and work with?
>> Hopefully, they have reasonable documentation.
>>
>>
>> If this is a one-time conversion just use the save as text feature
>> of adobe reader.
>>
>>
>>
>> My development environment is:
>>
>> Python
>> Linux
>> Ubuntu version 8.10
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.
>>
>>
>> Robert Berman
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>> I tried pyPdf once, just for fun, and it was nice:
>> http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
>> --
>> لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه
>> كالحقيقة.....محمد الغزالي
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>>
>> Emad Soliman Nawfal
>> Indiana University, Bloomington
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