User:Alexander Roidl/pdf2html

PDF2HTML

PDF2HTMLEX

• https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX

+

• very exact representation of every PDF, seems stable

-

• not maintained anymore
• heavy processing (high cpu usage)
• takes long
• little modification possible

poppler

+

• very simple
• lightweight
• fast

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• not very accurate
• one image per page

PyPDF2

import PyPDF2
pdfFileObject = open('sample.pdf', 'rb')
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObject)
count = pdfReader.numPages
for i in range(count):
    page = pdfReader.getPage(i)
    print(page.extractText())