https://github.com/timClicks/slate

The simplest way to extract text from PDFs in Python
https://github.com/timClicks/slate

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The simplest way to extract text from PDFs in Python

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/timClicks/slate
• Owner: timClicks
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2010-11-05T04:05:34.000Z (about 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-07-07T13:50:08.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-10T23:55:43.886Z (5 days ago)
• Language: Python
• Homepage: http://timmcnamara.co.nz/
• Size: 65.4 KB
• Stars: 425
• Watchers: 10
• Forks: 139
• Open Issues: 29
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
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slate: the easiest way to get text from PDFs in Python

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Slate is a Python package that simplifies the process of extracting

text from PDF files. It depends on the PDFMiner package.

Slate provides one class, PDF. PDF takes a file-like object and

will extract all text from the document, presentating each page

as a string of text:

  >>> with open('example.pdf') as f:

  ...    doc = slate.PDF(f)

  ...

  >>> doc 

  [..., ..., ...]

  >>> doc[1]

  'Text from page 2...'

If your pdf is password protected, pass the password as the

second argument:

  >>> with open('secrets.pdf') as f:

  ...     doc = slate.PDF(f, 'password')

  ...

  >>> doc[0]

  "My mother doesn't know this, but..."

More complex operations

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

If you would like access to the images, font files and other

information, then take some time to learn the PDFMiner API.

What is wrong with PDFMiner?

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

  1. Getting simple things done, like extracting the text

     is quite complex. The program is not designed to return

     Python objects, which makes interfacing things irritating.

  2. It's an extremely complete set of tools, with multiple 

     and moderately  steep learning curves.

  3. It's not written with hackability in mind.