Questions tagged [pdfminer]
A python-based tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
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To make a Letterhead consisting of Company Name, Logo, Address using Python , PDFminer, Regex , Canvas, ReportLab and any other tools
Create a letterhead in pdf format,using python in which we can use pdfminer,extract text ,regex, and any other tools as such.That letterhead should contain name, logo of that company and company ...
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Edit a pdf - remove a line from the pdf if it contains an "X" character
I'd like to mass-edit pdf files, and more specifically to remove the line containing the "X" character from all my pdf files, but I can't do it.
my document has 3 parts: a header with ...
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Python PDF page size
I am trying to get the page sizes of the pages in my PDF. I have tried using both PyPDF2 and pdfminer, I get the same results from both - 423.024x639.024 for artbox, cropbox, etc, and 459.048x675.048 ...
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How can I add a string on pdf file with shipping label layout using python?
I'm trying to add a string on a shipping label which is under pdf. I'm not 100% sure if using python to do this task but as a noob that just got into coding world, it's the only language that I can ...
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Extracting screenshots from an Exam Paper for questions and their parts
I want to extract screenshots of questions from a pdf exam paper. I wanted the question and its parts to be separated, so the actual question's introduction would be in a different screen shot and the ...
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Text extracted from Pdfminer python library is empty but the length of text is not 0
I have a python code in which I am trying to read the contents of various pdf files-scanned and text based both using pdfminer , the code is like this:
``with open(os.path.join(pdf_directory, ...
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issue when installing pdfminer.six in python 3.2.12 on windows 10
I want to install pdfminer.six to extract text from pdf files.
I cannot do it with python 3.12.2
This is the output of the command pip install pdfminer.six
PS C:\Users\Admin\resume_ai> pip install ...
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Python pdfminer LAParams not able to extract bulletpoints as paras
I have a pdf file and i wanna parse text from it with pdfminer.The problem is LAParams is not able to extract bullet points as line.I can't figure out why.
My pdf looks like this:
pdf Out put looks ...
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Regular Expression extracting strings between matches
I am trying to assign the text of a PDF to columns and using a regular expression to get the values in between matches in column headers. Ultimately for CSV.
I am getting the Year data printed twice, ...
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Is there a way to obtain the coordinates of the position of the character and not of the bbox?
I have this code that what I do is take the characteristics of the characters from the PDF and copy them to another PDF but the problem is that the and is not the same position since I don't know why ...
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have made this code with pdfminer to access the structure of a PDF. In this case I only access the LTchar structure (characters)
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
from pdfminer.layout import LTContainer, LTTextContainer, LTChar
def mostrar_estructura(pagina):
def buscar_ltchar(elemento):
if isinstance(...
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extract char location from pdf gives the wrong y corrdinates
I use the pdfminer to get the location of chars from a pdf, but it seems to give the wrong y coordinates
when I convert the pdf to image the all the pixels are in the wrong place
I understand the ...
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Is it possible for me separate a pdf with pdfminer based on straight horizontal lines?
I have a pdf with muliple tables where I haven't been successful with tabula for extracting its tables.
I noticed every table has a top straight horizontalline and a bottom horizontal line too, do I'd ...
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pdf miner adding extra new lines
While employing PDFMinerLoader to parse PDF files, I've observed that it introduces additional new lines when encountering bullets or numbers. For example:
Original pdf:
use the...
replace the..
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PDF to CSV - converted CSV has interchanged column Contents
I am trying to convert a PDF file into CSV using python and written below code for the same. Earlier it was working however recently its not working. I am getting interchanged column contents in the ...
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