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https://github.com/paramsiddharth/pdf2text
An application that can extract editable as well as scanned text from PDF files.
https://github.com/paramsiddharth/pdf2text
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An application that can extract editable as well as scanned text from PDF files.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/paramsiddharth/pdf2text
- Owner: paramsiddharth
- Created: 2020-10-31T08:53:14.000Z (about 4 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2022-10-14T06:15:50.000Z (about 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-05-22T20:22:00.135Z (7 months ago)
- Language: Python
- Size: 3.91 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 2
- Open Issues: 3
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# The Ultimate PDF to Text Converter
An application that can extract editable as well as scanned text from PDF files.
## Execution
Execute `main.py` using Python 3.8+.
```
python main.py
```
## Prerequisites and Dependencies
- PyPI requirements can be installed via `requirements.txt`.
```
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
```
`sudo` might be required for allowing the modification of the PATH environment variable.
- [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) must be installed and added to PATH for text recognition. It can be downloaded and installed [here](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases).
If it isn't in the PATH
environment variable, add it, or set/export TESSERACT_CMD
as the location of the Tesseract executable binary.
E. g.
- Bash
``` bash
export TESSERACT_CMD='/path/to/tesseract'
```
- PowerShell
``` powershell
$Env:Tesseract_Cmd = 'C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'
```
- Windows Command Prompt
``` cmd
set "TESSERACT_CMD=C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
```
- [Poppler](https://poppler.freedesktop.org/) must be installed and added to PATH for text recognition to work. Below are instructions for various operating systems.
- Windows users can download and install it [here](https://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/).
- MacOS users can install it using Homebrew.
```
brew install poppler
```
- Most Linux distributions already ship with Poppler. If absent, it can manually be installed.
```
sudo apt install poppler-utils
```
## Behind the idea
- [Tesseract PDF OCR](https://github.com/Manvendra2000/Reader) : A simple application that reads a PDF file and parses the text using the Tesseract OCR. _– [Manvendra](https://github.com/Manvendra2000), [Param](http://www.paramsid.com/)._
- [PDF File Reader](https://github.com/HarshMarolia/Pdf-File-Reader) : A simple Python application that reads out textual PDF files. _– [Harsh](https://github.com/HarshMarolia), [Param](http://www.paramsid.com/)._
### Made with ❤ by [Manvendra](https://github.com/Manvendra2000), [Harsh](https://github.com/HarshMarolia), [Param](http://www.paramsid.com/), and [Medha](https://github.com/tmedha).