Extract PDF Content with Python

[@SomeStuff9]

this was super helpful. Had a directory of over 50 bank statements as .pdf files and needed to find which of these contained transactions at IKEA. this video guided me to at least grab the relevant file names to look at. cheers.

[@bjornotto98]

Thats a typical Task ChatGPT helps to solve. I had exactly the same problem and it took me less then half an our to find the correct bank statement

[@kinshu5236]

How to use chat gpt in that way in order to solve our query?

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

Wow. Very cool. Always been easy putting pdfs putting together. Taking them apart used to be a very different story. Thanks!

[@janem.strathdon9888]

That's fantastic! This is what I've always wanted to know to automate file handling even further, but I hadn't known how to ask the proper questions. I've got the answer now. Thanks, great video!

[@AI_Cult]

This is clean and easy to follow. Thank you!

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

9:20 The only reason for using PIL is if you need to convert between image formats. Otherwise the raw data looks like it’s already in PNG format, that you can directly save to a file.

[@smudgepost]

A great video thank you. You know your subject and I enjoy coding along, thank you.

[@rahulchandrasekaran976]

Great explanation. Thanks for putting the whole thing together.

[@83southpaw]

Thank you so much for this great video! Very informative!

[@pillo1934]

You are so good, thanks for this videos. Waiting for the next!!!

[@serge9259]

This was AMAZING. Thank you very much

[@aaronkim3856]

perfect, this is exactly what i needed. now i just have to brainstorm some pattern expressions for my bank statements.

[@游家源-h3q]

Nice sharing for python coding, thanks a lot!

[@SiLiDNB]

This was very helpful, thank you so much!

[@OliveEzetendu]

I'm here for your intro...and video of course lol

[@dodi981]

Smart dude. Your talented. Great job

[@stansuen8072]

Great video. Wonder if you have a process to convert the PDF document into responsive HTML or epub so that one can read the PDF in a device of smaller size than the PDF document is intended for. I believe re can help connect broken lines into a paragraph (as much as we can), reformat tabel as table and put images in the original location within the PDF document.

[@ai.aspirations]

clear and simple, thanks!

[@behradio]

Thanks, Very Helpful 🙏🏻

[@Payton-Prescott]

Great video! I used to use this a bunch before AI, now I just use ChatGPT or extraktAI

[@hayat_soft_skills]

Wow! All in one .... Thanks!

[@cstndl]

I'm interested in building the PDFs using python and seems a bit challenging. I was able to do it with basic content but I was trying to achieve a nice Release notes document for a corporate app.

[@rashmin9475]

Really helpful sir. Can you please show how to convert PDF to XML document using python

[@shubhambahre9021]

Simply Superb

[@purovenezolano14]

Awesome video! Thank you!!

[@ideationtosuccess5439]

Cool, thats really good. I just wanted to start on Py although I have coding skills, Py is new to me and wanted to explore. It would be great, if you can mention how to install Py and also the pre-requisites before we start on Py programming.

[@steniowoneyramosdasilva9238]

Thank you very much.

[@motheomkhwanazi]

10:29 i keep getting AttributeError: module 'tabula' has no attribute 'read_pdf' on vs code ,i did install tabula before installing tabula-py (this was before i watched this video ),how do i resolve this issue

[@RonSheely]

Good work! Thank you.

[@annasc8280]

Great! Thank you!! Is it possible to open a file from Google Drive? How to pass the path?

[@mattiasorella4709]

Does enyone get the error with tabula that: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tabula' ??

[@newcooldiscoveries5711]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@nnamdiodozi7713]

Realy useful video. How do I go about parsing data from company financial statements which are in pdf? Data like assets, liabilities, shareholders' funds, Profit Before Tax. These are in tables in the PDF.

[@wallstreeter]

Hello were you able to do this?

[@nnamdiodozi7713]

@ still working on it. The docs had non standard tables and some were scanned thus making it harder.

[@simranmalik9150]

​​@@nnamdiodozi7713 that would require extracting images and converting it into text right? I am actually dealing with same task, I want to automate data entry from financial statements.

[@marvelousncube]

You're my hero broe

[@eliaszeray7981]

Great! Thank you.

[@mmm-me4kk]

Sir thank you, quick question, is the content (text) not saved in compressed form?

[@МатвейТимофеев-д1ц]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@uditkankaria9744]

Hey, I am not able to extract tables because it is saying I have not installed java and set the PATH. I am not able to resolve this problem and also all of the soultions on internet I have tried and were no use to me. Can you please help me out or might make a video on it. Nice Explaination BTW

[@rishavganguly1687]

facing same problem

[@StefanoVerugi]

​@@rishavganguly1687 please see my comment above in reply to loisrogue1630

[@NomanKhan-jf6pq]

It's not said in the video but to use tabula you also have to install Java in your system and add the JAVA_HOME path variable

[@hanyi3318]

is the panel you are showing python IDLE or something else?

[@sougatadas3760]

Which Pycharm theme do you use?

[@campbuzz-n8j]

does tabula require java runtime as a dependency?

[@alvaroinfante6650]

anyone getting a "cannot import name 'extract_pages' from pdfminer.high_level" error?

[@jamescollazov]

Yes same

[@OPEvers]

What is the fix for this error?

[@ryanturkel7189]

so useful thank you :)

[@fakebizPrez]

Which extensions are you using?

[@giuseppeaniello5458]

Hello, using this library is it possible to check if there is a digital signature in the PDF or not?

[@picklenickil]

IRL the main challenges with pdf are lists, footer, equations etc

[@gvenagas]

I found that by opening a pdf file with Mozilla Firefox and inspecting it with the developer tools you can collect its text (with the help of JavaScript) after the web browser has converted it to HTML and maybe save it for further processing with someone programming language.

[@amjadsaleem1270]

Is there any way to identify which text element is a heading?

[@PANDURANG99]

is it possible to read read pdf from online location like google drive, sharepoint using python without download pdf

[@swapnilsajwan322]

how did you import the pdf in the pycharm like that

[@youbrey8554]

Thanks great tutorial. pls make tutiorial how to using tabula to write it in excel with append mode.

[@rishavganguly1687]

Seems like the text extractor also pulls the texts contained in the table...any way to bypass that? as in, i want to just extract the free text, and not the ones contained in the table

[@abygeorge8543]

How could one possibly extract the raw text from a PDF while not losing important metadata like the font size of the text, so as to distinguish headings from paragraphs, etc?

[@aqclaudio]

Thanks for your video, but I had error using tabula.read_pdf AttributeError: module 'tabula' has no attribute 'read_pdf'. Can you help me?

[@anonymousduckling3820]

Would this work if working in a condoa enviroment? As I tried; tables = tabula.read_pdf("Name.pdf", pages = "all") print(tables) but it gave me JavaNotFoundError: `java` command is not found from this Python process.Please ensure Java is installed and PATH is set for `java`

[@cristianoronaldo-lr2mw]

What software is this? How do I download

[@angelleal3005]

I keep getting this ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfminer.converter' error. Is someone else experiencing something similar ?

[@nagarrajatbharatbhushan7819]

ModuleNotFoundError: PDFMINER

[@MrFernatico]

Very thanks...

[@TiagoMedinaEstevam]

i'm having issues with java. "`java` command is not found from this Python process.Please ensure Java is installed and PATH is set for `java`" How to solve that in the venv?

[@nefwaenre]

Thanks so much for this! If you could kindly make videos on using python to convert JPG to PDF and also compress PDF files, then i'll be forever grateful to you!

[@dilosirichfield5438]

Use extract library

[@loisrogue1630]

Do you have a video regarding the error that can occur when running tabula? Error: JVMNotFoundException: No JVM shared library file (jvm.dll) found. Try setting up the JAVA_HOME environment variable properly.

[@StefanoVerugi]

I struggled a bit today to find a solution first you need to have Java installed BEFORE you install tabula-py second you need JAVA_HOME variable to be set into the system variables with path to where it is located on your system (I hope you know how to do this, on windows go to terminal and type where java to find the right path) last install tabula-py hope it helps

[@ABUTAHER-wg7gz]

tabula is not working without the table data structure

[@khaho7552]

thank you

[@Rudrakshhs]

I always wanted to extract information from pdofiles 00:02

[@epoch-making_monarch94]

Why is that it place a query like need jvm environment and to be done with java

[@jqbk]

Didn't know Nacho was also a coder. 😂

[@abigailmapuladikobo9941]

How can I extract the same text data from multiple pdf files?

[@prefercihan641]

What if the PDF is saved as an image file?

[@carltondaniel8966]

i want to extract section name and its content , no one has a video for that .

[@ROKKor-hs8tg]

هل يمكن تحويل ذلك الى ملف word وكيف وكيف لpdf به عدة صفحات وماذا عن الاشكال الهندسية المرسومة وليس صورة

[@chulzzz99]

Is this the most efficent way to do this with Jupyter and Python?

[@EvanRobinson85]

How would I extract the shape of a cave map in a pdf file and create a shapefile for it?

[@EvanRobinson85]

I could send you my code

[@bennguyen1313]

I understand python libraries like Camelot, pdfminer can be used to extract data from a pdf.. however, my pdfs are a (not so great) scan of paper documents. As a result, none of the open-source OCR solutions (paddle , ocrmypdf , Pytesseract , easyocr , keras_ocretc) seem to work on it. With all the hype around AI, is there any LLM AI tool that is worth trying?

[@rafikyahia7100]

One idea i can think of is to preprocess the scanned image maybe, more contrast and upscale

[@scottboudreaux4624]

As far as OCR tools, Abbyy Finereader (unfortunately it is not open-source) has worked the best for me to reconstruct scanned documents. It does have a batch convert option if you have many pdf's that need to be OCR'd. I haven't found any python OCR options that can match it's accuracy. It does have the option to use custom trained pattern recognition among many other abilities.

[@trooify]

How does one save a file in the project folder as a pdf file type. Using pycharm, but all my pdfs are not recognised as a file type

[@henriquebaggio6337]

Same here, were you able to solve that?

[@trooify]

Sorry bru, still no idea. I think when u attach it in the projects folder, it recognizes it in edition and file types. Look under already associated file types and u shud see .pdf. so I moved it as a wildcard to automatically recognise file types and overrid my file type as that

[@trooify]

​@@henriquebaggio6337it still doesn't allow me to extract text, my program just runs without errors 😂. Can't print anything

[@timsar8859]

How can I turn table in pdf file into csv file?

[@ShrikantKadam-q6s]

Cool. I have some PDF files that are different in structure/format and I need to extract text from them without having header and footer text in it. How can we do that in Python? If anyone knows the way please help me with this.

[@benedictmbanefo6075]

Hello. can you please share how you solved this

[@ShrikantKadam-q6s]

Sorry, I didn't get any solution for the header and footer.

[@benedictmbanefo6075]

Thank you for the reply. I am trying to extract text from a pdf health questionnaire to a csv. This questionnaire has questions and options in various formats, even the headers that i need to include in the csv. If you have a tool you can recommend, i would be glad to hear it@@ShrikantKadam-q6s

[@TheMe26]

Can it handle arabic text?

[@alejandrochacon6910]

Hi, Thank you for your video, question, what is the logic for the app, if someone could explain how to initiate this project, please? Thank you

[@rakeshkumarrout2629]

this is really useful.but while doing llm work we have to work on indic languages for which we are using ocr based text extraction which is taking huge time.can you suggest or share anycode which could extract text hindi texts from pdfs? cause the ocr is taking a lot of time.and other pypdf pymupdf pdfminner they are simply useless in this case.kindly help if you have any solution.its urgent.

[@enkvadrat_]

You need to use ocr if the text in the pdf is in the form of an image and not actual text, usually you can select actual text but not text in an image.

[@guocity]

what about PDF require OCR?

[@netbin]

saved images colors are negatives, why?

[@dansharkito]

what if I have a pdf document with 20+ tables that I would like to extract into a single excel file?

[@angelleal3005]

Did you find out how it can be done ? I am also interested.

[@mochamadzayyid4783]

Can you make this to API with flask

[@petersignore9547]

What if a portion of the contents of a table were symbols?

[@rubensasson175]

someone got this error ? RuntimeError: Directory 'static/' does not exist

[@stanTrX]

I want to get unstructured table from pdf s

[@awyensemensembeb8729]

mantap pak abu

[@ramkumarkumar9305]

How to extract text from pdf with formatting? Please guide me

[@codevibes6695]

path = "out.pdf" import pdftotext with open(path, "rb") as f: pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f) pdftotext_text = " ".join(pdf) print('wow', pdftotext_text)

[@ivanterrible8960]

Cat see any text in the left partial window

[@One_RandomCommenter]

I zoned out somewhere around “import io”

[@porzellanteller]

Super!

[@JordanK_PRIME]

First from Cameroon

[@MaxMustermann-on2gd]

First from Emskirchne

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Greetings to 🇨🇲 from 🇳🇿.

[@JordanK_PRIME]

@@MaxMustermann-on2gd nice to meet you

[@JordanK_PRIME]

@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 welcome bro

[@greenlightzone]

My chatgpt daily messages ran out, i guess back to youtube

[@guilherme5094]

Nice.

[@Technology_55555]

What are the complete steps to create a PayPal adder money program?

[@abhisheksonawane2997]

Hey, for extracting table from PDF, getting this error - AttributeError: module 'tabula' has no attribute 'read_pdf' Can someone help what can i do about it?

[@prathammathur4068]

I am getting the same error and I have no idea how to resolve it

[@valmirrastelyjunior9400]

ok

[@aiory8849]

Please speak in English correctly like Indian people. I understand them excellent.

[@yessir4796]

I've installed and imported tabula correctly (double checked from a variety of sources). However, when I try to implement the read_pdf function or any other function, it gives me the following error: AttributeError: module 'tabula' has no attribute 'read_pdf' Does anyone know why this is the case?