Extracting text from PDF in Python

问题

I have a PDF full of quotes:

https://www.pdf-archive.com/2017/03/22/test/

I can extract the text in python using the following code:

import PyPDF2

pdfFileObj = open('example.pdf','rb') 
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)         
print (pageObj.extractText())

This returns all the quotes as one paragraph. Is it possible to 'split' the pdf by the horizontal separator and split it into quotes that way?

回答1:

If you want to just extract the quotes from the pdf text you can use regex to find all the quotes.

import PyPDF2
import re
pdfFileObj = open('test.pdf','rb') 
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)         
text = str(pageObj.extractText())

quotes = re.findall(r'"[^"]*"',text)
for quote in quotes:
    print quote
    print 

or just

quotes = re.findall(r'"[^"]*"',text)
print quotes

回答2:

i could not find a way to split it by the horizontal separator, but i managed to do it in another way:

import PyPDF2

quotes = []

pdfFileObj = open('test.pdf','rb') 
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0)         
for x in (pageObj.extractText()).split('"\n'): print x+"\n"*5

回答3:

import pdfplumber

pdf = pdfplumber.open(file_path)

p0 = pdf.pages[0]

text = p0.extract_text()

text

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42962811/extracting-text-from-pdf-in-python