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Need help to open PDF file and Export to text file - ratna_ain - Oct-09-2017
Hi All,
I need to open PDF file with Adobe Reader and save to text file using sendkeys:
- File : ALT+F
- Save to Others : H
- Text : X
This is my code to open the file and sendkeys:
import win32com.client
import os
from sys import argv
shell = win32com.client.Dispatch("WScript.Shell")
filename = "C:\RATNA\temp\TU1-2.pdf"
os.chdir('C:\\RATNA\\temp')
os.system('"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Adobe\\Reader 11.0\\Reader\\AcroRd32.exe" TU1-2.pdf' )
shell.AppActivate('Acrobat.exe')
shell.SendKeys("%{f}",0)
shell.SendKeys("H", 0)
shell.SendKeys("X", 0)
The problem with this code is the sendkeys will be triggered only after I closed the PDF file.
Thank You
RE: Need help to open PDF file and Export to text file - nilamo - Oct-09-2017
os.system will block until the call completes. If you use something that doesn't block, such as the subprocess module, it might work.
https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html#subprocess.run
RE: Need help to open PDF file and Export to text file - buran - Oct-09-2017
python has plenty of packages that allow to convert pdf to text (extract text from pdf) in a native way, not by sending keys to external application.
Just to name a few (in no particular order, i.e. not as recommendation):
textract
PDFminer - python2 and its pdf2txt tool. also pdfminer.six - a fork with python2/3 support
slate - wrapper around PDFminer
RE: Need help to open PDF file and Export to text file - ratna_ain - Oct-10-2017
(Oct-09-2017, 05:49 PM)buran Wrote: python has plenty of packages that allow to convert pdf to text (extract text from pdf) in a native way, not by sending keys to external application.
Just to name a few (in no particular order, i.e. not as recommendation):
textract
PDFminer - python2 and its pdf2txt tool. also pdfminer.six - a fork with python2/3 support
slate - wrapper around PDFminer
Yeah, I have tried all of them including apache tika.
The problem is when I use those packages , some files(around 10%) are not extracted correctly. Example : the title is extracted in the middle of the content, but actually the title is at the top in the PDF.
And when I extract them with adobe reader manually, the title is extracted correctly. So my idea is to use this adobe reader for those files with these exception. We cannot do it one by one because the volume of the files is high.