pdftobb

General PDF parsing code extracted from my newspaper mining codebase.

This uses pdfminer3k to dump a PDF file as an XML file. Then it collates bounding boxes and outputs a (pandas-style) CSV.

Installation

Via pip

1. Initialize a virtual environment
2. pip install pdftobb

Via git

1. Clone this repository, cd to it
2. Initialize a virtual environment, activate it
3. pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

If installed via pip: pdftobb path/to/pdf.pdf

If installed locally: python path/to/pdftobb.py path/to/pdf.pdf

Running pdftobb on a file file.pdf will generate two files: file.pdf.xml (the output of pdf2txt.py -t xml file.pdf > file.pdf.xml) and file.pdf.csv, which is the XML file turned into a slightly more condensed csv file.