Welcome to pdfminer.six’s documentation!

Pdfminer.six is a python package for extracting information from PDF documents.

Check out the source on github.

Content

This documentation is organized into four sections (according to the Divio documentation system). The Tutorials section helps you setup and use pdfminer.six for the first time. Read this section if this is your first time working with pdfminer.six. The How-to guides offers specific recipies for solving common problems. Take a look at the Topics if you want more background information on how pdfminer.six works internally. The API Reference provides detailed api documentation for all the common classes and functions in pdfminer.six.

• Tutorials
  • Install pdfminer.six as a Python package
  • Extract text from a PDF using the commandline
  • Extract text from a PDF using Python
  • Extract text from a PDF using Python - part 2
  • Extract elements from a PDF using Python
• How-to guides
  • How to extract images from a PDF
• Topics
  • Converting a PDF file to text
• API Reference
  • Command-line API
  • High-level functions API
  • Composable API

Features

• Parse all objects from a PDF document into Python objects.

• Analyze and group text in a human-readable way.

• Extract text, images (JPG, JBIG2 and Bitmaps), table-of-contents, tagged contents and more.

• Support for (almost all) features from the PDF-1.7 specification

• Support for Chinese, Japanese and Korean CJK) languages as well as vertical writing.

• Support for various font types (Type1, TrueType, Type3, and CID).

• Support for RC4 and AES encryption.

Installation instructions

Before using it, you must install it using Python 3.4 or newer.

$ pip install pdfminer.six

Contributing

We welcome any contributors to pdfminer.six! But, before doing anything, take a look at the contribution guide.