Create PracticePDFExtractor.py

Does simple text extraction from pdf into html or plain text using either pyPDF or PDFMiner libraries

Classifiers/PracticePDFExtractor.py

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+import PyPDF2
+import csv
+import pdfminer
+import os
+
+
+def extract_text_using_pypdf(fileName):
+	pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open(fileName, "rb"))
+	allText = []
+	for page in pdf.pages:
+		allText.append(page.extractText())
+	return allText
+
+def extract_text_using_pdf_miner(inputFile, outputFile):
+	""" This method calls a command line argument from the pdfminer library
+		Indicate txt or html by the file name output.txt or output.html
+		For more commands, see http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/
+	"""
+	commandString = "pdf2txt.py -o " + outputFile + " " + inputFile
+	os.system(commandString)
+
+def export_to_csv(inputFileName, csvFileName):
+	f = open(inputFileName, 'r')
+	with open(csvFileName, 'wb') as csvfile:
+		myWriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter='\t')
+		myWriter.writerow(f.readlines())
+
+def test():
+	#textVector = extract_text_using_pypdf("Lunch-Money.pdf")
+	#export_to_csv(textVector[2:], "Lunch-Money.csv")
+	extract_text_using_pdf_miner("E3562014236085.pdf", "E3562014236085.html")
+	export_to_csv("E3562014236085.html", "E3562014236085.csv")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+	test()