anish-m-code/pdftotext

A simple pdftotext conversion tool for Windows 8.1/10/11 and FEDORA/UBUNTU/DEBIAN/ARCH based linux distros using poppler-utils and Google's tesseract-ocr.

PDF TO TEXT CONVERTER

A simple Python script to convert PDF Documents to Text Files .

Primary Supported Platforms

• Debian / Debian Based Linux Distros
• Ubuntu / Ubuntu Based Linux Distros
• Fedora / Fedora Based Linux Distros
• Arch Linux / Arch Linux Based Distros
• Void Linux / Void Linux Based Distros
• Windows 10 and above Windows Operating Systems.

Quick Installation

To Install from PyPI:

Run the following commands in Linux terminal / Windows powershell / command prompt to install:-

pip install pdftotext3

Then simply type the following command inside the folder/Directory containing PDF Files to start converting PDF to text :-

pdftotext

For Windows Platform Additional software is required for Proper Functioning of this program , refer Windows Requirements here. To run the program by directly downloading from github refer Instructions here.

NOTE: THIS TOOL IS MEANT TO CONVERT THOSE PDF DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE NOT EASILY CONVERTBLE TO OTHER FORMATS. CURRENTLY THIS TOOL SUPPORTS ENGLISH ONLY.

pdftotext's Issues

Add support for Void Linux

I can add support for Void Linux because the actual project cannot work in that distro

Add support for non english languages.

Currently Pdftotext only supports english , potential contributors may try to add non english languages , simplify installation and uninstallation of additional language packs , add code to support above mentioned features on both linux and windows.

Automatic installation of dependencies fail when using pypi pkg

pip install pdftotext3 doesn't auto install required dependencies , installer tries to install and prompts sudo password then throws error The update command takes no arguments . Verified on ubuntu 22.04