Extract title from pdf file.

pdftitle.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Extract title from PDF file.

Depends on: pyPDF, PDFMiner.

Usage:

    find . -name "*.pdf" |  xargs -I{} pdftitle -d tmp --rename {}
"""

import cStringIO
import getopt
import os
import re
import string
import sys

from pyPdf import PdfFileReader
from pyPdf.utils import PdfReadError

from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf, PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFSyntaxError

__all__ = ['pdf_title']

def sanitize(filename):
    """Turn string to valid file name.
    """
    valid_chars = "-_.() %s%s" % (string.ascii_letters, string.digits)
    return ''.join([c for c in filename if c in valid_chars])

def meta_title(filename):
    """Title from pdf metadata.
    """
    try:
        docinfo = PdfFileReader(file(filename, 'rb')).getDocumentInfo()
        return docinfo.title if docinfo.title else ""
    except PdfReadError:
        return ""

def copyright_line(line):
    """Judge if a line is copyright info.
    """
    return re.search(r'technical\s+report|proceedings|preprint|to\s+appear|submission', line.lower())

def empty_str(s):
    return len(s.strip()) == 0

def pdf_text(filename):
    try:
        text = cStringIO.StringIO()
        rsrc = PDFResourceManager()
        device = TextConverter(rsrc, text, codec='utf-8', laparams=LAParams())
        process_pdf(rsrc, device, file(filename, 'rb'), None, maxpages=1, password='')
        device.close()
        return text.getvalue()
    except (PDFSyntaxError, PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed):
        return ""

def title_start(lines):
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        if not empty_str(line) and not copyright_line(line):
            return i;
    return 0

def title_end(lines, start, max_lines=2):
    for i, line in enumerate(lines[start+1:start+max_lines+1], start+1):
        if empty_str(line):
            return i
    return start + 1

def text_title(filename):
    """Extract title from PDF's text.
    """
    lines = pdf_text(filename).strip().split('\n')

    i = title_start(lines)
    j = title_end(lines, i)

    return ' '.join(line.strip() for line in lines[i:j])

def valid_title(title):
    return not empty_str(title) and empty_str(os.path.splitext(title)[1])

def pdf_title(filename):
    title = meta_title(filename)
    if valid_title(title):
        return title

    title = text_title(filename)
    if valid_title(title):
        return title

    return os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(filename)[0])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'nd:', ['dry-run', 'rename'])

    dry_run = False
    rename = False
    dir = "."

    for opt, arg in opts:
        if opt in ['-n', '--dry-run']:
            dry_run = True
        elif opt in ['--rename']:
            rename = True
        elif opt in ['-d']:
            dir = arg

    if len(args) == 0:
        print "Usage: %s [-d output] [--dry-run] [--rename] filenames" % sys.argv[0]
        sys.exit(1)

    for filename in args:
        title = pdf_title(filename)
        if rename:
            new_name = os.path.join(dir, sanitize(' '.join(title.split())) + ".pdf")
            print "%s => %s" % (filename, new_name)
            if not dry_run:
                if os.path.exists(new_name):
                    print "*** Target %s already exists! ***" % new_name
                else:
                    os.rename(filename, new_name)
        else:
            print title

I've updated this script to use work with the currently maintained PDFMiner 3 and pdfminer-six.

pip uninstall pdfminer
pip install pypdf pdfminer-six

Environment info

pip list | grep -e pdfminer -e pypdf
pdfminer.six           20221105
pypdf                  3.7.0

python -V
Python 3.10.8

Script

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Extract title from PDF file.
Depends on: pyPDF, PDFMiner.
Usage:
    find . -name "*.pdf" |  xargs -I{} pdftitle -d tmp --rename {}
"""

from io import StringIO
import getopt
import os
import re
import string
import sys

from pypdf import PdfReader
from pypdf.errors import PdfReadError

from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFSyntaxError

__all__ = ['pdf_title']

def sanitize(filename):
    """Turn string to valid file name.
    """
    valid_chars = "-_.() %s%s" % (string.ascii_letters, string.digits)
    return ''.join([c for c in filename if c in valid_chars])

def meta_title(filename):
    """Title from pdf metadata.
    """
    try:
        with open(filename, 'rb') as file:
            docinfo = PdfReader(file).metadata
        return docinfo.title if docinfo.title else ""
    except PdfReadError:
        return ""

def copyright_line(line):
    """Judge if a line is copyright info.
    """
    return re.search(r'technical\s+report|proceedings|preprint|to\s+appear|submission', line.lower())

def empty_str(s):
    return len(s.strip()) == 0

def pdf_text(filename):
    try:
        text = StringIO.StringIO()
        rsrc = PDFResourceManager()
        device = TextConverter(rsrc, text, codec='utf-8', laparams=LAParams())
        with open(filename,'rb') as file:
            PDFPage.get_pages(rsrc, device, file, None, maxpages=1, password='')
        device.close()
        return text.getvalue()
    except (PDFSyntaxError, PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed):
        return ""

def title_start(lines):
    for i, line in enumerate(lines):
        if not empty_str(line) and not copyright_line(line):
            return i;
    return 0

def title_end(lines, start, max_lines=2):
    for i, line in enumerate(lines[start+1:start+max_lines+1], start+1):
        if empty_str(line):
            return i
    return start + 1

def text_title(filename):
    """Extract title from PDF's text.
    """
    lines = pdf_text(filename).strip().split('\n')

    i = title_start(lines)
    j = title_end(lines, i)

    return ' '.join(line.strip() for line in lines[i:j])

def valid_title(title):
    return not empty_str(title) and empty_str(os.path.splitext(title)[1])

def pdf_title(filename):
    title = meta_title(filename)
    if valid_title(title):
        return title

    title = text_title(filename)
    if valid_title(title):
        return title

    return os.path.basename(os.path.splitext(filename)[0])

if __name__ == "__main__":
    opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'nd:', ['dry-run', 'rename'])

    dry_run = False
    rename = False
    dir = "."

    for opt, arg in opts:
        if opt in ['-n', '--dry-run']:
            dry_run = True
        elif opt in ['--rename']:
            rename = True
        elif opt in ['-d']:
            dir = arg

    if len(args) == 0:
        print("Usage: %s [-d output] [--dry-run] [--rename] filenames" % sys.argv[0])
        sys.exit(1)

    for filename in args:
        title = pdf_title(filename)
        if rename:
            new_name = os.path.join(dir, sanitize(' '.join(title.split())) + ".pdf")
            print("%s => %s" % (filename, new_name))
            if not dry_run:
                if os.path.exists(new_name):
                    print("*** Target %s already exists! ***" % new_name)
                else:
                    os.rename(filename, new_name)
        else:
            print(title)