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How do I scrape a PDF document?

PDFs can contain data fields.

These fields may have information such as title, author, company etc. This is usually done in the form of a header and footer. Scraping these data fields out is called "parsing" the PDF document. I'm sure there are different ways of doing this. Most of the
Software I've used had their own methods of parsing the document. Here I tried to use pdftk with an example PDF. I've also used "pdf-parser" from github. Here's an example of my code. Hope that it's a good example to learn from.

Import pdftk, lxml, json, os. From lxml import html. Df = pdftk.PDF(path='example.pdf')
Pages = df.url #url. Soup = html.data) tree = soup.xpath('.replace(" ","")
title = tr.xpath('.replace(" ","")
author = tr.xpath('.replace(" ","")
print('Page %d: %s, %s' % (i, title, author, filename)). Df.clean() print("Done! All files written"). With open("./output","w") as outfile: json.dump(df, outfile) I think that the most important problem was getting an element of the parent object from another object. So here's how I solved that.

How do I scrape a PDF into Excel?

I want to be able to scrape a bunch of PDFs into Excel so that I can do some further analysis on them.

I've found the PDFMiner app, but it's very time-consuming (taking many minutes per PDF) and has a limited set of commands. I was hoping there might be an easier way to do this.

The PDFs are for example purposes, so if the answer depends on the nature of the PDFs, I'd like to hear that as well. Thanks in advance.

The following Python script does what you want: from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader. Import os. Def getfilepath(filename): return os.path(join(os.path(dirname(file), filename)
Def createexcelworkbook(pdfpath): """Creates an Excel workbook with the specified PDF file.""" # Create the workbook. book = xlwt.Workbook() # Add a sheet. sheet = book.addsheet('PDF') sheet.setcolumn('A', 30) sheet.setrow(0, 40) sheet.write(0, pdfpath) return book. If name == "main": pdfpath = getfilepath(""). wb = createexcelworkbook(pdfpath). wb.save("example.: return os.path(join(os.path(dirname(file), filename)
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