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from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
from docx import opendocx, getdocumenttext
#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5725278/python-help-using-pdfminer-as-a-library
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from cStringIO import StringIO
def convert_pdf_to_txt(path):
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
retstr = StringIO()
codec = 'utf-8'
laparams = LAParams()
device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
fp = file(path, 'rb')
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()
str = retstr.getvalue()
retstr.close()
return str
def document_to_text(filename, file_path):
if filename[-4:] == ".doc":
cmd = ['antiword', file_path]
p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE)
stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
return stdout.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
elif filename[-5:] == ".docx":
document = opendocx(file_path)
paratextlist = getdocumenttext(document)
newparatextlist = []
for paratext in paratextlist:
newparatextlist.append(paratext.encode("utf-8"))
return '\n\n'.join(newparatextlist)
elif filename[-4:] == ".odt":
cmd = ['odt2txt', file_path]
p = Popen(cmd, stdout=PIPE)
stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
return stdout.decode('ascii', 'ignore')
elif filename[-4:] == ".pdf":
return convert_pdf_to_txt(file_path)
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