Python PDF to Text or HTML HOW TO:

python_pdf_to_text_or_html

pip install pdfminer

for text replace HTMLConverter to TEXTConverter....


from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.converter import HTMLConverter
from cgi import escape



def convert_pdf_to_html(url):
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    retstr = StringIO()
    codec = 'utf-8'
    laparams = LAParams()
    device = HTMLConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    scrape = urlopen(url).read()
    fp = StringIO(scrape)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
    password = ""
    maxpages = 0
    caching = True
    pagenos = set()
    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp, pagenos, maxpages=maxpages, password=password, caching=caching, check_extractable=True):
        interpreter.process_page(page)

    fp.close()
    device.close()
    textstr = retstr.getvalue()
    retstr.close()
    return textstr