PDF-data-extraction

Working on different packages of python for extracting data from a pdf

There are many python packages to play with pdf files namely:

1. PyPDF2
2. PDFMiner
3. Slate
4. Tabula

PyPDF2

A python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:

• Extracting document information (title, author, …)
• Splitting documents page by page
• Merging documents page by page
• Cropping pages
• Merging multiple pages into a single page
• Encrypting and decrypting PDF file

Check Working with PyPDF2

PDFMiner

Check Working with PDFMiner

Using PyPDF2 with local and online pdfs and saving the text in a .txt file

Converting data of PDF file (both local and online pdfs to txt, json and html files usinf PDFMiner