Text Extraction: pdf --> txt

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Text Extraction: pdf --> txt #14

Open grahamsack opened 10 years ago

grahamsack commented 10 years ago

There are a few pre-existing python packages for this...

pypdf
slate
pdfminer

jonahsmith commented 10 years ago

FYI, I can't get Slate to work either. I might be missing something, but here is the error I'm getting:

  File "slateTest.py", line 1, in <module>
    import slate
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from slate import PDF
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument
ImportError: cannot import name PDFDocument

Looks like there's a problem calling something in pdfminer? Graham, is this the issue you were having yesterday?

grahamsack commented 10 years ago

Yes. Same issue. I'm using pdfminer from command line now

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FYI, I can't get Slate to work either. I might be missing something, but here is the error I'm getting:

File "slateTest.py", line 1, in import slate File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/init.py", line 48, in from slate import PDF File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 3, in from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument ImportError: cannot import name PDFDocument Looks like there's a problem calling something in pdfminer? Graham, is this the issue you were having yesterday?

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