PDFminer: extract text with its font information

Question

I find this question, but it uses command line, and I do not want to call a Python script in command line using subprocess and parse HTML files to get the font information.

I want to use PDFminer as a library, and I find this question, but they are just all about extracting plain texts, without other information such as font name, font size, and so on.

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.converter import PDFPageAggregator
import pdfminer


def createPDFDoc(fpath):
    fp = open(fpath, 'rb')
    parser = PDFParser(fp)
    document = PDFDocument(parser, password='')
    # Check if the document allows text extraction. If not, abort.
    if not document.is_extractable:
        raise "Not extractable"
    else:
        return document


def createDeviceInterpreter():
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    laparams = LAParams()
    device = PDFPageAggregator(rsrcmgr, laparams=laparams)
    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
    return device, interpreter


def parse_obj(objs):
    for obj in objs:
        if isinstance(obj, pdfminer.layout.LTTextBox):
            for o in obj._objs:
                if isinstance(o,pdfminer.layout.LTTextLine):
                    text=o.get_text()
                    if text.strip():
                        for c in  o._objs:
                            if isinstance(c, pdfminer.layout.LTChar):
                                print "fontname %s"%c.fontname
        # if it's a container, recurse
        elif isinstance(obj, pdfminer.layout.LTFigure):
            parse_obj(obj._objs)
        else:
            pass


document=createPDFDoc("/tmp/simple.pdf")
device,interpreter=createDeviceInterpreter()
pages=PDFPage.create_pages(document)
interpreter.process_page(pages.next())
layout = device.get_result()


parse_obj(layout._objs)

Answer 2

This approach does not use PDFMiner but does the trick.

First, convert the PDF document into docx. Using python-docx you can then retrieve font information. Here's an example of getting all the bold text

from docx import *

document = Document('/path/to/file.docx')

for para in document.paragraphs:
    for run in para.runs:
        if run.bold:
            print run.text

If you really want to use PDFMiner you can try this. Passing '-t' would convert the PDF into HTML with all the font information.