How to extract text using pdfminer in Python?

How do I extract specific text from a PDF?

I am in the process of trying to figure out how to extract a number of words from a document that looks similar to this.

The words are not labeled so I have to read them through by looking at a high frequency word. This might have led to some false positives. There are 2 pages like the one pictured with the text I want to pull out in bold letters.

Any help is greatly appreciated. After some research I found there is no way to do this using a simple pdf reader/extractor tool. It required software capable of reading OCR or Optical Character Recognition codes.

We had our office install a program called "Zapier Reader". This allowed us to enter text in and then convert it to a TXT format so that we could access it easily through other programs such as Excel, PowerPoint, etc. In order to do so we needed to download a text to speech app and then create an XML based conversion file (like the one below) and upload it to Zapier. Once Zapier had the converted data it was a matter of exporting it directly to a spreadsheet for further manipulation.

From the PDF in the picture above, I was able to take a screenshot of the PDF, import it into Zapier where I created an .xml file from it which in turn exported to an excel file. From there I was able to take a screenshot and add a number on my clipboard for further manipulation. You may also be able to open the raw converted .xml file in Google Docs, Microsoft Excel or another spreadsheet program.

How to extract text using pdfminer in Python?

I am using pdfminer in python to extract text from pdf and I want to extract whole word as text.

But after extraction the first word of the document is converted to lower case. How can I avoid this behavior?
Import pdfminer. Import sys. Pdffile = 'C:UsersdubeyDesktoptesttest.pdf' path = 'C:UsersdubeyDesktoptesttest.txt' with open(pdffile, 'rb') as filehandle: pdfminer.process(filehandle, path) First, try the following in your code: doc = pdfminer.open('test.pdf')
With open(path, 'w') as f: for in doc.pages: for j in i.texts(): f.write(j.encode('utf-8'))
This should write the text as it appears in the PDF to the file. If you want to preserve the original case, try the following: doc = pdfminer.open('test.pdf')
With open(path, 'w') as f: for in doc.texts(): f.write(j.encode('utf-8'))encode('unicode-escape').encode('raw-unicode-escape'))
The first one will preserve the case, while the second one will use raw characters.

How to install pdfminer high_level?

Hi all.

I want to install pdfminer to convert pdf files in to html and text files. I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 with python2.7
I use command. Pip install pdfminer. It's downloading pdfminer and then install it. But, my problem is that I can't use pdfminer highlevel option because it's giving me an error. How to install pdfminer highlevel?
Thanks for any help. You need to install the High Level option from the source package. You can install it from source by using pip.

You can download the source code from GitHub. Then you can build it using make. After that you can install it by typing python setup.py install.

Or you can just install the HighLevel package using easyinstall. The Easy Install method will install all of the necessary dependencies for the HighLevel option as well.