https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six

Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF
https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six

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Community maintained fork of pdfminer - we fathom PDF

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six
• Owner: pdfminer
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-08-29T14:04:53.000Z (about 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-08-02T01:01:58.000Z (3 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-30T21:02:28.716Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: parser, pdf, python
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io
• Size: 13.9 MB
• Stars: 5,843
• Watchers: 116
• Forks: 925
• Open Issues: 240
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
pdfminer.six

============

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*We fathom PDF*

Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner. It is a tool for extracting information from PDF

documents. It focuses on getting and analyzing text data. Pdfminer.six extracts the text from a page directly from the

sourcecode of the PDF. It can also be used to get the exact location, font or color of the text.

It is built in a modular way such that each component of pdfminer.six can be replaced easily. You can implement your own

interpreter or rendering device that uses the power of pdfminer.six for other purposes than text analysis.

Check out the full documentation on

[Read the Docs](https://pdfminersix.readthedocs.io).

Features

--------

* Written entirely in Python.

* Parse, analyze, and convert PDF documents.

* Extract content as text, images, html or [hOCR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOCR).

* PDF-1.7 specification support. (well, almost).

* CJK languages and vertical writing scripts support.

* Various font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, and CID) support.

* Support for extracting images (JPG, JBIG2, Bitmaps).

* Support for various compressions (ASCIIHexDecode, ASCII85Decode, LZWDecode, FlateDecode, RunLengthDecode,

  CCITTFaxDecode)

* Support for RC4 and AES encryption.

* Support for AcroForm interactive form extraction.

* Table of contents extraction.

* Tagged contents extraction.

* Automatic layout analysis.

How to use

----------

* Install Python 3.8 or newer.

* Install pdfminer.six.

  ```bash

  pip install pdfminer.six

* (Optionally) install extra dependencies for extracting images.

  ```bash

  pip install 'pdfminer.six[image]'

* Use the command-line interface to extract text from pdf.

  ```bash

  pdf2txt.py example.pdf

* Or use it with Python. 

  ```python

  from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text

  text = extract_text("example.pdf")

  print(text)

  ```

Contributing

------------

Be sure to read the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md). 

Acknowledgement

---------------

This repository includes code from `pyHanko` ; the original license has been included [here](/docs/licenses/LICENSE.pyHanko).