Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/rk700/PyMuPDF

Author: JorjMcKie

README.md

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 Have a look at the basic [demos](https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF-Utilities/tree/master/demo), the [examples](https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF-Utilities/tree/master/examples) (which contain complete, working programs), and the **recipes** section of our [Wiki](https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF/wiki) sidebar, which contains more than a dozen of guides in How-To-style.
 
+**_New: Layout preserving text extraction!_**
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+> Script [textlayout.py](https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF-Utilities/blob/master/text-extraction/textlayout.py) extracts document text in a **_layout-preserving_** manner. So text in tables or multi-column pages should deliver quite faithful text output. Works for all supported document types, not just PDF.
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 Our **documentation**, written using Sphinx, is available in various formats from the following sources. It currently is a combination of a reference guide and a user manual. For a **quick start** look at the [tutorial](https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorial/) and the [recipes](https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq/) chapters.
 
 * You can view it online at [Read the Docs](https://readthedocs.org/projects/pymupdf/). This site also provides download options for PDF.