Simple fork of the original repo to fix the bash installer scripts, if you had the SystemExit: Did not detect correctly installed xpdf. error this is the right repo for you.
PLUS: Added to_png extraction wrapper (for png extraction you need Pillow library pip install Pillow)
version number: 0.0.10
author: Edward Atkins
python >= 3.4
Python wrapper for xpdf (currently just the "pdftotext" utility)
To install using pip from pypi:
$ pip install xpdf_python
To install using pip from github:
$ pip install git+https://github.com:/ecatkins/xpdf_python
To make this work you have to install xpdf in your system, you can find more info and the download link here: http://www.xpdfreader.com I also updated the bash scripts that automatically install xpdf, so if it fails simply run the script in install_xpdf subdirectory
Clone the repo:
$ git clone https://github.com/Togn3K/xpdf_python.git
$ python setup.py install
The package will attempt to automatically install xpdf. If this fails use either:
- Instructions for your OS found here OR
- The bash scripts found in this repo's install_xpdf subdirectory
macOS, Linux
Note: For Linux you may need to install the libxp6 library:
sudo apt install libxp6 (Ubuntu)
sudo yum install libXp.so.6 (Centos)
from xpdf_python import to_text
pdf_location = '/path/to/my.pdf'
text = to_text(pdf_location)
