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How does one obtain the location of text in a PDF with PDFMiner? [duplicate]

You are looking for the bbox property on every layout object. There is a little bit of information on how to parse the layout hierarchy in the PDFMiner documentation, but it doesn’t cover everything. Here’s an example: from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from … Read more

How to extract text and text coordinates from a PDF file?

Here’s a copy-and-paste-ready example that lists the top-left corners of every block of text in a PDF, and which I think should work for any PDF that doesn’t include “Form XObjects” that have text in them: from pdfminer.layout import LAParams, LTTextBox from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter … Read more

How do I use pdfminer as a library

Here is a new solution that works with the latest version: from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from cStringIO import StringIO def convert_pdf_to_txt(path): rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec=”utf-8″ laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) fp = file(path, ‘rb’) interpreter … Read more

Extracting text from a PDF file using PDFMiner in python?

Here is a working example of extracting text from a PDF file using the current version of PDFMiner(September 2016) from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from io import StringIO def convert_pdf_to_txt(path): rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec=”utf-8″ laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, … Read more