How to read line by line in pdf file using PyPdf?

Looks like what you have is a large chunk of text data that you want to interpret line-by-line. You can use the StringIO class to wrap that content as a seekable file-like object: >>> import StringIO >>> content=”big\nugly\ncontents\nof\nmultiple\npdf files” >>> buf = StringIO.StringIO(content) >>> buf.readline() ‘big\n’ >>> buf.readline() ‘ugly\n’ >>> buf.readline() ‘contents\n’ >>> buf.readline() ‘of\n’ … Read more

Unable to use pypdf module

This is a problem of an old version of pypdf. The history of pypdf is a bit compliated, but the gist of it: Use pypdf>=3.1.0. All lowercase, no number. Since December 2022, it’s the best supported version. Install pypdf $ sudo -H pip install pypdf You might need to replace pip by pip2 or pip3 … Read more

How to check if PDF is scanned image or contains text

The below code will work, to extract data text data from both searchable and non-searchable PDF’s. import fitz text = “” path = “Your_scanned_or_partial_scanned.pdf” doc = fitz.open(path) for page in doc: text += page.get_text()() You can refer this link for more information. If you don’t have fitz module you need to do this: pip install … Read more

Extract images from PDF without resampling, in python?

You can use the module PyMuPDF. This outputs all images as .png files, but worked out of the box and is fast. import fitz doc = fitz.open(“file.pdf”) for i in range(len(doc)): for img in doc.getPageImageList(i): xref = img[0] pix = fitz.Pixmap(doc, xref) if pix.n < 5: # this is GRAY or RGB pix.writePNG(“p%s-%s.png” % (i, … Read more

Merge PDF files

You can use PyPdf2s PdfMerger class. File Concatenation You can simply concatenate files by using the append method. from PyPDF2 import PdfMerger pdfs = [‘file1.pdf’, ‘file2.pdf’, ‘file3.pdf’, ‘file4.pdf’] merger = PdfMerger() for pdf in pdfs: merger.append(pdf) merger.write(“result.pdf”) merger.close() You can pass file handles instead file paths if you want. File Merging If you want more … Read more