pdftotext

I'm converting a doc to a pdf (unoconv) in memory and printing (pdftotext) in the terminal with: unoconv -f pdf --stdout sample.doc | pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 - out.txt Is working. Now i want use this command with child_process.spawn : let filePath = "...", process = child_process.spawn("unoconv", [ "-f", "pdf", "--stdout", filePath, "|", "pdftotext", "-layout", "-enc", "UTF-8", "-", "-" ]); In this case, only the first command (before the |) is working. Is i possible to do what i'm trying? Thanks. UPDATE- Result of: sh -c- .... bash-3.2$ sh -c- unoconv -f pdf --stdout /Users/fatimaalves

I want to extract all rows from here while ignoring the column headers as well as all page headers, i.e. Supported Devices . pdftotext -layout DAC06E7D1302B790429AF6E84696FCFAB20B.pdf - \ | sed '$d' \ | sed -r 's/ +/,/g; s/ //g' \ > output.csv The resulting file should be in CSV spreadsheet format (comma separated value fields). In other words, I want to improve the above command so that the output doesn't brake at all. Any ideas? I'll offer you another solution as well. While in this case the pdftotext method works with reasonable effort, there may be cases where not each page has the same

How can I install pdftotext properly? I'm getting the error message below when installing pdftotext in Python 3.6. I also tried to install the package manually by downloading the zip file but still got the same error. pdftotext/pdftotext.cpp(4): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h': No such file or directory error: command 'C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\\VC\\BIN\\x86_amd64\\cl.exe' failed with exit status 2 I found some help in the Readme.md file in the pdftotext package : 1) Install OS Dependencies : on Debian, Ubuntu, and

Is there any consistent way to extract tables from PDF files? Any tools? What I have done so far: I have tried out pdftotext tool. It has an option to convert to HTML layout. What is the problem with this: The table information is not preserved in HTML output I expected <table> tags, but everything was under <p> tags. Will there be any markers in a PDF document to indicate table structures? Like <table> , <tr> and <td> in HTML? If "yes", any pointers to this would be helpful. If "no", a definite info about this fact is also helpful. If the PDF document misses information that marks content as

I am trying to parse the pdf file text using pdfMiner, but the extracted text gets merged. I am using the pdf file from the following link. PDF File I am good with any type of output (file/string). Here is the code which returns the extracted text as string for me but for some reason, columns are merged. from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf import StringIO def convert_pdf(filename): rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec = 'utf-8' laparams = LAParams() device =

I have nearly one thousand pdf journal articles in a folder. I need to text mine on all article's abstracts from the whole folder. Now I am doing the following: dest <- "~/A1.pdf" # set path to pdftotxt.exe and convert pdf to text exe <- "C:/Program Files (x86)/xpdfbin-win-3.03/bin32/pdftotext.exe" system(paste("\"", exe, "\" \"", dest, "\"", sep = ""), wait = F) # get txt-file name and open it filetxt <- sub(".pdf", ".txt", dest) shell.exec(filetxt) By this, I am converting one pdf file to one .txt file and then copying the abstract in another .txt file and compile it manually. This work is

I use a itext for converting pdf to text file, it works good actually but for some words it do the following thing: for example in pdf there is phrase like "present the main ideas" but itext creates an output like "presentthemainideas". Is there anyway to correct this behaviour? String pdf="/home/can/Downloads/NLP/textSummarization/A New Approach for Multi-Document Update Summarization.pdf"; String txt="/home/can/myWorkSpace/PDFConverterProject/outputs/bb.txt"; StringBuffer text=new StringBuffer() ; String resultText=""; PdfReader reader; try { reader = new PdfReader(pdf);