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.. _tutorial_extract_pages:
Extract elements from a PDF using Python
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The high level functions can be used to achieve common tasks. In this case,
we can use :ref:`api_extract_pages`:
.. code-block:: python
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
for element in page_layout:
print(element)
Each ``element`` will be an ``LTTextBox``, ``LTFigure``, ``LTLine``, ``LTRect``
or an ``LTImage``. Some of these can be iterated further, for example iterating
though an ``LTTextBox`` will give you an ``LTTextLine``, and these in turn can
be iterated through to get an ``LTChar``. See the diagram here:
:ref:`topic_pdf_to_text_layout`.
Let's say we want to extract all of the text. We could do:
.. code-block:: python
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
from pdfminer.layout import LTTextContainer
for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
for element in page_layout:
if isinstance(element, LTTextContainer):
print(element.get_text())
Or, we could extract the fontname or size of each individual character:
.. code-block:: python
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
from pdfminer.layout import LTTextContainer, LTChar
for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
for element in page_layout:
if isinstance(element, LTTextContainer):
for text_line in element:
for character in text_line:
if isinstance(character, LTChar):
print(character.fontname)
print(character.size)
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