pdf_to_json

Python module to Convert a PDF file to a JSON format

The goal is to be able to quickly extract all the available information in the document to a python dictionay. The dictionay can then be stored in a database or a csv file (for a later Machine Learning processing).

The extracted information can be :

• Document metadata : title, format, version, creation date, author
• Page images
• Page texts (in Unicode, when availabe, no OCR here) and text attributes (fonts etc)

This tool uses the excellent poppler library.

This tool is initially intended for multilingual PDF document processing. The following tests describve the use case :

https://github.com/antoinecarme/pdf_to_json_tests/tree/master/data/multilingual

Demo

also availabe as a jupyter notebook

import pdf_to_json as p2j
import json

# web document : UDHR
url = "https://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Documents/UDHR_Translations/eng.pdf"

# Convert the document into a python dictionary
lConverter = p2j.pdf_to_json.pdf_to_json_converter()
lDict = lConverter.convert(url)

print(json.dumps(lDict, indent=4))

Installation

pip install --upgrade git+git://github.com/antoinecarme/pdf_to_json.git