https://github.com/dothinking/pdf2docx
Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
https://github.com/dothinking/pdf2docx
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Open source Python library for converting PDF to DOCX.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dothinking/pdf2docx
- Owner: ArtifexSoftware
- License: agpl-3.0
- Created: 2019-06-20T07:32:24.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2024-09-23T22:31:55.000Z (9 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-18T16:05:46.557Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: docx, extract-table, pdf-converter, pdf-to-word, pymupdf
- Language: Python
- Homepage: https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io
- Size: 21.9 MB
- Stars: 2,658
- Watchers: 26
- Forks: 388
- Open Issues: 83
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
English | [中文](README_CN.md)
# pdf2docx
[](https://codecov.io/gh/dothinking/pdf2docx)
[](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdf2docx/)
- Extract data from PDF with `PyMuPDF`, e.g. text, images and drawings
- Parse layout with rule, e.g. sections, paragraphs, images and tables
- Generate docx with `python-docx`
## Features
- Parse and re-create page layout
- page margin
- section and column (1 or 2 columns only)
- page header and footer [TODO]
- Parse and re-create paragraph
- OCR text [TODO]
- text in horizontal/vertical direction: from left to right, from bottom to top
- font style, e.g. font name, size, weight, italic and color
- text format, e.g. highlight, underline, strike-through
- list style [TODO]
- external hyper link
- paragraph horizontal alignment (left/right/center/justify) and vertical spacing
- Parse and re-create image
- in-line image
- image in Gray/RGB/CMYK mode
- transparent image
- floating image, i.e. picture behind text
- Parse and re-create table
- border style, e.g. width, color
- shading style, i.e. background color
- merged cells
- vertical direction cell
- table with partly hidden borders
- nested tables
- Parsing pages with multi-processing
*It can also be used as a tool to extract table contents since both table content and format/style is parsed.*
## Limitations
- Text-based PDF file
- Left to right language
- Normal reading direction, no word transformation / rotation
- Rule-based method can't 100% convert the PDF layout
## Documentation
- [Installation](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html)
- [Quickstart](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html)
- [Convert PDF](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.convert.html)
- [Extract table](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.table.html)
- [Command Line Interface](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.cli.html)
- [Graphic User Interface](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.gui.html)
- [Technical Documentation (In Chinese)](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/techdoc.html)
- [API Documentation](https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/modules.html)
## Sample
