Suggestion for converting PDF files to HTML/txt files

[srinivasan srinivas]

Could someone suggest me ways to convert PDF files to HTML files??
Does Python have any modules to do that job??

Thanks,
Srini


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[brad]

Could someone suggest me ways to convert PDF files to HTML files??
Does Python have any modules to do that job??

Thanks,
Srini

Unless there is some recent development, the answer is no, it's not
possible. Getting text out of PDF is difficult (to say the least) and at
times impossible... i.e. a PDF can be an image that contains some text, etc.

 

[alex23]

Could someone suggest me ways to convert PDF files to HTML files??
Does Python have any modules to do that job??

PDFMiner is a set of CLI tools written in Python, one of which
converts PDF to text, HTML and more:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html

 

[brad]

PDFMiner is a set of CLI tools written in Python, one of which
converts PDF to text, HTML and more:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html

Very neat program. Would be cool if it could easily integrate into other
py apps instead of being a standalone CLI tool.

 

[alex23]

Very neat program. Would be cool if it could easily integrate into other
py apps instead of being a standalone CLI tool.

Perhaps, but I think you could get a long way using os.system().

 

[brad]

Perhaps, but I think you could get a long way using os.system().

Yes, that is possible, but there's a lot of overhead when doing that...
unfortunately. Also, if using os.system() is the answer, then one could
just use the xpdf pdftotext program. A native Python solution that could
be called from other PY apps naturally, would be awesome.