https://github.com/alisafaya/txt-from-pdf

Extracting clean text from pdfs using pdfminer.six and pypdf.
https://github.com/alisafaya/txt-from-pdf

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Extracting clean text from pdfs using pdfminer.six and pypdf.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alisafaya/txt-from-pdf
• Owner: alisafaya
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2024-04-18T12:26:52.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-27T16:28:44.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-20T13:29:12.553Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: pdf, pdf-document-processor, text-mining
• Language: Python
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• Size: 52.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# txt-from-pdf: Extract clean text from PDFs

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Extracting text from pdfs using [pymupdf](https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/), but with a focus on cleaning and formatting the extracted text. 

# Installation

```bash

pip install txt-from-pdf

```

# Usage

```python

from txtfrompdf import extract_txt_from_pdf

pdf_path = "file.pdf"

text = extract_txt_from_pdf(pdf_path)

print(text)

```

# CLI Usage

Single file:

```bash

txt-from-pdf --input file.pdf --output extracted-text 

```

Multiple files in a directory:

```bash

txt-from-pdf --input dir-with-pdfs --output extracted-text 

```

Detailed help:

```bash

usage: txt-from-pdf [-h] --input INPUT [--output OUTPUT] [--no_filter] [--size SIZE]

txt-from-pdf CLI - Extracts cleaned text from PDF files

options:

  -h, --help       show this help message and exit

  --input INPUT    Path to a folder containing PDFs or to a single PDF file. (Required)

  --output OUTPUT  Output location for the extracted text files. (Optional, default: 'extracted_text')

  --no_filter      Turn off cleaning the resulting text files. (Optional)

```