

You cannot extract any text from a PDF document which does not have extraction permission. You need to provide a password for protected PDF documents when its access is restricted. It also extracts the corresponding locations, font names, font sizes, writing direction (horizontal or vertical) for each text portion. It cannot recognize text drawn as images that would require optical character recognition. text represented as ASCII or Unicode strings. It extracts all the text that are to be rendered programmatically, i.e. Pdf2txt.py extracts text contents from a PDF file. PDFMiner comes with two handy tools: pdf2txt.py and dumppdf.py.
PDFMINER PYTHON 3 INSTALL INSTALL
On Windows machines which don't have make command, paste the following commands on a command line prompt: python tools\conv_cmap.py pdfminer\cmap Adobe-CNS1 cmaprsrc\cid2code_Adobe_CNS1.txt cp950 big5 python tools\conv_cmap.py pdfminer\cmap Adobe-GB1 cmaprsrc\cid2code_Adobe_GB1.txt cp936 gb2312 python tools\conv_cmap.py pdfminer\cmap Adobe-Japan1 cmaprsrc\cid2code_Adobe_Japan1.txt cp932 euc-jp python tools\conv_cmap.py pdfminer\cmap Adobe-Korea1 cmaprsrc\cid2code_Adobe_Korea1.txt cp949 euc-kr python setup.py install Command Line Tools Reading 'cmaprsrc/cid2code_Adobe_CNS1.txt'. Python tools/conv_cmap.py pdfminer/cmap Adobe-CNS1 cmaprsrc/cid2code_Adobe_CNS1.txt cp950 big5 In order to process CJK languages, you need an additional step to take during installation: # make cmap

Unlike other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing text data. PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. For the full documentation on PDFMiner, see What's It?
