| PackageDescription | PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike
other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text
data. PDFMiner allows to obtain the exact location of texts in a page, as well
as other information such as fonts or lines. It includes a PDF converter that
can transform PDF files into other text formats (such as HTML). It has an
extensible PDF parser that can be used for other purposes instead of text
analysis.
Features
* Written entirely in Python. (for version 2.4 or newer)
* Parse, analyze, and convert PDF documents.
* PDF-1.7 specification support. (well, almost)
* CJK languages and vertical writing scripts support.
* Various font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, and CID) support.
* Basic encryption (RC4) support.
* PDF to HTML conversion (with a sample converter web app).
* Outline (TOC) extraction.
* Tagged contents extraction.
* Reconstruct the original layout by grouping text chunks.
* PDFMiner is about 20 times slower than other C/C++-based counterparts such as XPdf.
Yusuke Shinyama <yusuke at cs dot nyu dot edu> |