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python-pdfbox

Package Description

Provides a simple Python 3 interface to the Apache PDFBox command-line tools.

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Requirements

Aside from Python 3 and those packages specified in setup.py, python-pdfbox requires java to be present in the system path.

Some users have reported issues on MacOS with certain versions of Java. If you encounter such issues, try a recent release of OpenJDK (14 or later).

Installation

The package may be installed as follows:

pip install python-pdfbox

One may specify the location of the PDFBox jar file via the PDFBOX environmental variable. If not set, python-pdfbox looks for the jar file in the platform-specific user cache directory and automatically downloads the latest available version below 3.0.0 and caches it if not present.

Usage

The interface currently exposes only several features in PDFBox (text extraction, conversion to images, extraction of images):

import pdfbox
p = pdfbox.PDFBox()
p.extract_text('/path/to/my_file.pdf')   # writes text to /path/to/my_file.txt
p.pdf_to_images('/path/to/my_file.pdf')  # writes images to /path/to/my_file1.jpg, /path/to/my_file2.jpg, etc.
p.extract_images('/path/to/my_file.pdf') # writes images to /path/to/my_file-1.png, /path/to/my_file-2.png, etc.

Notes

Owing to a change in command line interface, python-pdfbox cannot currently use PDFBox 3.0.0.

Development

The latest release of the package may be obtained from GitHub.

Author

See the included AUTHORS.rst file for more information.

License

This software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. See the included LICENSE.rst file for more information.

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