pdfminer.rtl

This is a fork of pdfminer.six that attempts to add RTL support with python-bidi. This version is experimental and probably buggy. Please don't rely on it for critical projects.

Check out the full original documentation on Read the Docs.

Features

• (Added RTL support)
• Written entirely in Python.
• Parse, analyze, and convert PDF documents.
• Extract content as text, images, html or hOCR.
• PDF-1.7 specification support. (well, almost).
• CJK languages and vertical writing scripts support.
• Various font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, and CID) support.
• Support for extracting images (JPG, JBIG2, Bitmaps).
• Support for various compressions (ASCIIHexDecode, ASCII85Decode, LZWDecode, FlateDecode, RunLengthDecode, CCITTFaxDecode)
• Support for RC4 and AES encryption.
• Support for AcroForm interactive form extraction.
• Table of contents extraction.
• Tagged contents extraction.
• Automatic layout analysis.

How to use

• Install Python 3.8 or newer.

• Install pdfminer.rtl.

  pip install pdfminer.rtl

• (Optionally) install extra dependencies for extracting images.

  pip install 'pdfminer.rtl[image]'

• Use the command-line interface to extract text from pdf.

  pdf2txt.py example.pdf

• Or use it with Python.

from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text

text = extract_text("example.pdf")
print(text)

Acknowledgement

This repository includes code from pyHanko ; the original license has been included here and to all the other contirbutors of the original project see here