A python library for extracting text from PDFs without losing the formatting of the PDF content

Aug 02, 2021 2 min read

Multilingual PDF to Text

A python library for extracting text from PDFs without losing the formatting of the PDF content

Install Package from Pypi

Install it using pip.

pip install multilingual-pdf2text

The library uses Tesseract which can be installed by following instructions:

Tesseract Installation

Example Usage

Use it in your code

from multilingual_pdf2text.pdf2text import PDF2Text
from multilingual_pdf2text.models.document_model.document import Document
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

def main():
## create document for extraction with configurations
pdf_document = Document(
document_path='/Users/shahrukh/Desktop/multilingual-pdf2text/example/example.pdf',
language='spa'
)
pdf2text = PDF2Text(document=pdf_document)
content = pdf2text.extract()
print(content)

if name == "main":
main()

Tesseract supports the following languages:
Code Language

GitHub

https://github.com/shahrukhx01/multilingual-pdf2text

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