PDFminer: extract text with its font information

Question

I find this question, but it uses command line, and I do not want to call a Python script in command line using subprocess and parse HTML files to get the font information.

Answer 1

This approach does not use PDFMiner but does the trick.

First, convert the PDF document into docx. Using python-docx you can then retrieve font information. Here's an example of getting all the bold text

from docx import *

document = Document('/path/to/file.docx')

for para in document.paragraphs:
    for run in para.runs:
        if run.bold:
            print run.text

If you really want to use PDFMiner you can try this. Passing '-t' would convert the PDF into HTML with all the font information.