On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Jon Ribbens
wrote:
> On 2017-11-21, Daniel Gross wrote:
> > I am new to python and jumped right into trying to read out (english)
> text
> > from PDF files.
>
> That's not a trivial task. However I just released pycpdf, which might
> help you out. Check out https
On 2017-11-21, Daniel Gross wrote:
> I am new to python and jumped right into trying to read out (english) text
> from PDF files.
That's not a trivial task. However I just released pycpdf, which might
help you out. Check out https://github.com/jribbens/pycpdf which shows
an example of extracting
Daniel Gross writes:
> I am new to python and jumped right into trying to read out (english) text
> from PDF files.
>
> I tried various libraries (including slate)
You could give "pdfminer" a try.
Note, however, that it may not be possible to extract the text:
PDF is a generic format which works
I haven't tried it, but a quick Google search found PyPDF2 -
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34837707/extracting-text-from-a-pdf-file-using-python
You don't give much detail about what you tried and how it failed, so
if the above doesn't work for you, I'd suggest providing more detail
as to wh
