PdfExtractor
View SourceA lightweight Elixir library for extracting text from PDF files using Python's pdfplumber. Supports single and multi-page extraction with optional area filtering.
Features
- 🔍 Extract text from single or multiple PDF pages
- 📍 Area-based extraction using bounding boxes
- 🐍 Leverages Python's powerful pdfplumber library
- 🚀 Simple and intuitive API
- ✅ Comprehensive test coverage
- 📚 Full documentation
Installation
Add pdf_extractor
to your list of dependencies in mix.exs
:
def deps do
[
{:pdf_extractor, "~> 0.1.0"}
]
end
Usage
Extract text from specific regions using bounding boxes [x0, y0, x1, y1]
:
pages = [0, 1] # zero based index
areas = %{
0 => [0, 0, 300, 200], # Top-left area of page 0
1 => [200, 300, 600, 500] # Bottom-right area of page 1
}
PdfExtractor.PdfPlumber.extract_text("path/to/document.pdf", pages, areas)
Return Format
The function returns a map where keys are page numbers and values are the extracted text:
%{
0 => "Text from page 0...",
1 => "Text from page 1...",
2 => "Text from page 2..."
}
Documentation
Full documentation is available at https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
Acknowledgments
- Built on top of the excellent pdfplumber Python library
- Uses pythonx for seamless Python integration