txt-from-pdf: Extract clean text from PDFs

Extracting text from pdfs using pdfminer.six and pypdf. Adapted from PDFextract.

Installation

pip install txt-from-pdf

Usage

from txtfrompdf import extract_txt_from_pdf

pdf_path = "file.pdf"
text = extract_txt_from_pdf(pdf_path)
print(text)

CLI Usage

Single file:

txt-from-pdf --input file.pdf --output extracted-text 

Multiple files in a directory:

txt-from-pdf --input dir-with-pdfs --output extracted-text 

Detailed help:

usage: txt-from-pdf [-h] --input INPUT [--output OUTPUT] [--no_filter] [--size SIZE]

txt-from-pdf CLI - Extracts cleaned text from PDF files

options:
  -h, --help       show this help message and exit
  --input INPUT    Path to a folder containing PDFs or to a single PDF file. (Required)
  --output OUTPUT  Output location for the extracted text files. (Optional, default: 'extracted_text')
  --no_filter      Turn off cleaning the resulting text files. (Optional)
  --size SIZE      Maximum file size per page in bytes for processing (mostly images). (Optional, default: 300000)