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Re: Reading Adobe PDF File

Subject	Re: Reading Adobe PDF File
From	Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>
Date	2012-01-30 08:22 -0500
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On Sat, 2012-01-28 at 21:59 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Shrewd Investor <cltung@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have a very large Adobe PDF file.  I was hoping to use a script to
> > extract the information for it.  Is there a way to loop through a PDF
> > file using Python?
> Haven't used it myself, but:
> http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/

It is very prone to hanging and/or crashing.  I haven't yet found a
really reliably way to read text from a PDF.

PyPDF provides a PdfFileReader class with an extractText method.  The
output is indeed the text although it can be a bit thorny to look at.

> > Or do I need to find a way to convert a PDF file into a text file?  If
> > so how?
> The pdf2txt.py script from the same package happens to do exactly this.


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Reading Adobe PDF File Shrewd Investor <cltung@gmail.com> - 2012-01-28 21:52 -0800
  Re: Reading Adobe PDF File Shrewd Investor <cltung@gmail.com> - 2012-01-28 21:52 -0800
  Re: Reading Adobe PDF File Chris Rebert <clp2@rebertia.com> - 2012-01-28 21:59 -0800
  Re: Reading Adobe PDF File Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2012-01-30 09:09 +0100
  Re: Reading Adobe PDF File Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org> - 2012-01-30 08:22 -0500

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