README.md

pdf2docx

• Parse layout (text, image and table) from PDF file with PyMuPDF
• Generate docx with python-docx

Features

• Parse and re-create paragraph

  • text in horizontal/vertical direction: from left to right, from bottom to top
  • font style, e.g. font name, size, weight, italic and color
  • text format, e.g. highlight, underline, strike-through
  • text alignment, e.g. left/right/center/justify
  • external hyper link
  • paragraph layout: horizontal alignment and vertical spacing
  • list style

• Parse and re-create image

  • in-line image
  • image in Gray/RGB/CMYK mode
  • transparent image
  • floating image, i.e. picture behind text

• Parse and re-create table

  • border style, e.g. width, color
  • shading style, i.e. background color
  • merged cells
  • vertical direction cell
  • table with partly hidden borders
  • nested tables

• Parsing pages with multi-processing

It can also be used as a tool to extract table contents since both table content and format/style is parsed.

Limitations

• Text-based PDF file only
• Normal reading direction only
  • horizontal/vertical paragraph/line/word
  • no word transformation, e.g. rotation

Documentation

• Installation
• Quickstart
  • Convert PDF
  • Extract table content
  • Command Line Interface
• API Documentation

Sample