Extract PDF Content with Python

In this video, we learn how to extract and parse PDF content using Python.

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[thomasgoodwin]

Wow. Very cool. Always been easy putting pdfs putting together. Taking them apart used to be a very different story. Thanks!

[janem.strathdon]

That's fantastic! This is what I've always wanted to know to automate file handling even further, but I hadn't known how to ask the proper questions. I've got the answer now. Thanks, great video!

[stansuen]

Great video. Wonder if you have a process to convert the PDF document into responsive HTML or epub so that one can read the PDF in a device of smaller size than the PDF document is intended for. I believe re can help connect broken lines into a paragraph (as much as we can), reformat tabel as table and put images in the original location within the PDF document.

[SomeStuff]

this was super helpful. Had a directory of over 50 bank statements as .pdf files and needed to find which of these contained transactions at IKEA. this video guided me to at least grab the relevant file names to look at. cheers.

[smudgepost]

A great video thank you. You know your subject and I enjoy coding along, thank you.

[lawrencedoliveiro]

9:20 The only reason for using PIL is if you need to convert between image formats. Otherwise the raw data looks like it’s already in PNG format, that you can directly save to a file.

[rahulchandrasekaran]

Great explanation. Thanks for putting the whole thing together.

[pillo]

You are so good, thanks for this videos. Waiting for the next!!!

[cstndl]

I'm interested in building the PDFs using python and seems a bit challenging.
I was able to do it with basic content but I was trying to achieve a nice Release notes document for a corporate app.

[SiLiDNB]

This was very helpful, thank you so much!

[southpaw]

Thank you so much for this great video! Very informative!

[mmm-mekk]

Sir thank you, quick question, is the content (text) not saved in compressed form?

[swapnilsajwan]

how did you import the pdf in the pycharm like that

[mattiasorella]

Does enyone get the error with tabula that:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tabula' ??

[bodxbuw]

Nice sharing for python coding, thanks a lot!

[rishavganguly]

Seems like the text extractor also pulls the texts contained in the table...any way to bypass that? as in, i want to just extract the free text, and not the ones contained in the table

[aaronkim]

perfect, this is exactly what i needed. now i just have to brainstorm some pattern expressions for my bank statements.

[abygeorge]

How could one possibly extract the raw text from a PDF while not losing important metadata like the font size of the text, so as to distinguish headings from paragraphs, etc?

[informaticosdecuba]

El ejemplo de extraer texto lo usaste para extraer un nombre que básicamente es una palabra, ¿sirve cuando se desea extraer un texto completo?

[annasc]

Great! Thank you!! Is it possible to open a file from Google Drive? How to pass the path?