A python (3.6+) module that wraps poppler's pdftoimage, pdftohtml and pdftotext to extract informations from PDF.

• image
• text
• infromation about the position of various text lines

pip install poppdf

Windows users will have to build or download poppler for Windows. I recommend @oschwartz10612 version which is the most up-to-date. You will then have to add the bin/ folder to PATH or use poppler_path = r"C:\path\to\poppler-xx\bin" as an argument in convert_from_path.

Mac users will have to install poppler for Mac.

Most distros ship with pdftoppm and pdftocairo. If they are not installed, refer to your package manager to install poppler-utils

1. Install poppler: conda install -c conda-forge poppler
2. Install pdf2image: pip install pdf2image

from pdf2image import image_from_path, xml_from_path, text_from_path

from poppdf.pdfDocument import PdfDocument

Then simply do:

pdf = PdfDocument('example.pdf')

And

print(pdf.pages[1].text)