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Plumb a PDF for detailed information about each text character, rectangle, and line. Plus: Table extraction and visual debugging.

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How to extract text from a two-column PDF using PDFPlumber

I am working on topic modeling tasks using python and I would like to extract texts from annual/sustainability reports. However my problem is, when I tried to extract the report, the extracted lines are broken between two different columns in a page…
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Trouble parsing interview transcript (Q&As) where questioner name is sometimes redacted

I have the following python script I wrote as a reproducible example of my current pdf-parsing hangup. It: downloads a pdf transcript from the web (Cassidy Hutchinson's 9/14/2022 interview transcript with the J6C) reads/OCRs that pdf to…
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How to solve (cid:x) pdfplumber python text extraction

PDF_Doc I've been working with the pdfplumber library to extract text from pdf documents and it's been fine, however in the documents I'm working on now, I just get spaces and lots of (cid:x) instead of text. Any solution? Thanks with…
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Issue with ligatures when converting PDF to text

I am running into an issue when trying to convert a PDF to text where the ligatures 'fi' 'ff' 'fl' are being converted to an empty space. I have read through quite a few similar threads on the issue but have not found a solution that works. This…
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extract borderless table with pdfplumber

I am trying to extract the borderless tables from the PDF document, I have tried few combination with PDF table_settings parameter, however pdfplumber cannot recognize the borderless tables correctly pdf file can be downloaded from the link Here is …
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How to extract texts and tables pdfplumber

With the pdfplumber library, you can extract the text of a PDF page, or you can extract the tables from a pdf page. The issue is that I can't seem to find a way to extract text and tables. Essentially, if the pdf is formatted in this…
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Use pdfplumber to extract paragraphs

I'm using pdfplumber to extract text from a pdf. I'm able to extract lines of text, but I'm having trouble extracting a paragraph. Here's the current code I have. Example of text I want to extract: Paragraph Title Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,…
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Extract text and tables of a PDF file in Python

I am looking for a solution to extract both text and tables out of a PDF file. While some packages are good for extracting text, they are not enough good to extract tables. One solution would be using Azure Form Recognizer Layout Model, but it…
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Conda wont install pdfplumber

I'm trying to use miniconda3 to install pdfplumber. I keep getting this error message and I don't know how to interpret it. (env1) C:\Users\engineer>conda install -c conda-forge pdfplumber Collecting package metadata (current_repodata.json):…
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pdfplumber table-extract inconsistent columns and stripping spaces

Pdfplumber is the most accurate tool I have found so far for extracting text from a PDF, plus it can extract table data in rows and columns. I have encountered two problems with the table function. a wide column of text (e.g. a description) may be…
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pdfplumber python extract_tables setting for the specific strategy

i've this pdf, I'm trying to extract table from pdf. Wwhat is the better strategy to get the table? I can not be able to get the value specific on table , for example in the first table , i 've to get [70,75,80,85,90,100,105,110,115,120] and for the…
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Python, using pdfplumber, pdfminer packages extract text from pdf, bolded characters duplicates

Goal: extract Chinese financial report text Implementation: Python pdfplumber/pdfminer package to extract PDF text to txt problem: for PDF text in bold, corresponding extracted text in txt duplicates Examples are as follows: Such as the following…
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pdfplumber rotates all pages in pdf

I am trying to read a PDF using pdfplumber and it usually works, but if there is one page where the text is rotated, it rotates all other pages as well. This is the code I use: import pdfplumber pdf_path = "some_pdf.pdf" with…
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Regular expressions python - get only the description V2

i am, again, trying to get description with RE Python modules, and i am almost done, but not everything, so.. I want to extract the description for this list; list = ['Fatura Original-2ª via', 'Nº Z200 1/8206881085 Data 12-10-2022 Moeda…
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How to open a pdf in a specific page via python

As a part of my program I was trying to, as the title suggests, open a pdf file in a web browser on a specific page so reading the contents of that pdf page and printing it via pdfplumber or PyPDF2 won't really do. I tried searching up methods to do…
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