Splitting PDF files into Paragraphs

Question

I have a question regarding the splitting of pdf files. basically I have a collection of pdf files, which files I want to split in terms of paragraph. so to each paragraph of the pdf file to be a file on its own. I would appreciate if you can help me with this, preferably in Python, but if that is not possible any language will do.

Answer 1

You can use pdftotext for the above, wrap it in python subprocess. Alternatively you could use some other library which already do it implicitly like textract. Here is a quick example, Note: I have used 4 spaces as delimiter to convert the text to paragraph list, you might want to use different technique.

import re
import textract
#read the content of pdf as text
text = textract.process('file_name.pdf')
#use four space as paragraph delimiter to convert the text into list of paragraphs.
print re.split('\s{4,}',text)