Refer, pikepdf, which is based on qpdf. It automatically converts pdfs to be extractable. Code for Reference: import pikepdf def remove_password_from_pdf(filename, password=None): pdf = pikepdf.open(filename, password=password) pdf.save(“pdf_file_with_no_password.pdf”) if __name__ == “__main__”: remove_password_from_pdf(filename=”/path/to/file”)
After many fruitful hours of exploring OCR libraries, bounding boxes and clustering algorithms – I found a solution so simple it makes you want to cry! I hope you are using Linux; pdftotext -layout NAME_OF_PDF.pdf AMAZING!! Now you have a nice text file with all the information lined up in nice columns, now it is … Read more
Try PDFMiner. It can extract text from PDF files as HTML, SGML or “Tagged PDF” format. The Tagged PDF format seems to be the cleanest, and stripping out the XML tags leaves just the bare text. A Python 3 version is available under: https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six