semmtech/pdftotree repository overview

⁠pdftotree

⁠Installation of pdftotree

Thde Docker image has been created using the following commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install python3 python3-pip
apt-get install imagemagick
apt-get install openjdk-8-jre-headless 

As well as the installation of pdftotree:

pip3 install pdftotree

If you use the Docker image there is no need to do any of the above, see Usage below!

⁠Usage

In order to use pdftotree run the following command:

docker run --rm -v "$(pwd)/data/:/data/" semmtech/pdftotree pdftotree -o /data/output.html /data/input.pdf

Note that the -v "$(pwd)/src/:/data/" mount the local folder data into the container to /data. The -o /data/output.html sets the output file; whereas the last argument indicate the input PDF file (which is /data/input.pdf).

⁠Future works

Also look at pdfminer and extraction of data (as described in https://dzone.com/articles/exporting-data-from-pdfs-with-python⁠)

⁠References

Some useful references

• https://github.com/HazyResearch/pdftotree⁠
• https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six⁠
• https://dzone.com/articles/exporting-data-from-pdfs-with-python⁠