pdflib

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pdflib

Python binding for poppler.

Installation

Using pip: pip install pdflib

From source:

• Clone poppler source code and compile it:

git clone --branch poppler-0.63.0 --depth 1 https://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/poppler/poppler.git poppler_src
cd poppler_src/
cmake -DENABLE_SPLASH=OFF -DBUILD_GTK_TESTS=OFF -DENABLE_UTILS=OFF -DENABLE_LIBOPENJPEG=none .
make

• Set POPPLER_SRC environment variable

export POPPLER_ROOT=/pdflib/poppler_src/

• Install cython

pip install cython

• Build extension

python setup.py build_ext --inplace

Usage

>>> from pdflib import Document
>>> doc = Document("path/to/file.pdf")

Getting metadata

>>> print(doc.metadata)
>>> print(doc.xmp_metadata)

Getting text content of each page

>>> for page in doc:
        print(' \n'.join(page.lines).strip())

Getting images from each page

>>> for page in doc:
        page.extract_images(path='images', prefix='img')

LICENSE

pdflib is available under GPL v3 (poppler is GPL).