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.. _tutorial_extract_pages:
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Extract elements from a PDF using Python
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The high level functions can be used to achieve common tasks. In this case,
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we can use :ref:`api_extract_pages`:
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.. code-block:: python
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from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
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for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
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for element in page_layout:
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print(element)
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Each ``element`` will be an ``LTTextBox``, ``LTFigure``, ``LTLine``, ``LTRect``
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or an ``LTImage``. Some of these can be iterated further, for example iterating
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though an ``LTTextBox`` will give you an ``LTTextLine``, and these in turn can
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be iterated through to get an ``LTChar``. See the diagram here:
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:ref:`topic_pdf_to_text_layout`.
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Let's say we want to extract all of the text. We could do:
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.. code-block:: python
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from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
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from pdfminer.layout import LTTextContainer
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for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
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for element in page_layout:
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if isinstance(element, LTTextContainer):
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print(element.get_text())
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Or, we could extract the fontname or size of each individual character:
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.. code-block:: python
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from pdfminer.high_level import extract_pages
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from pdfminer.layout import LTTextContainer, LTChar
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for page_layout in extract_pages("test.pdf"):
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for element in page_layout:
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if isinstance(element, LTTextContainer):
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for text_line in element:
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for character in text_line:
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if isinstance(character, LTChar):
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print(character.fontname)
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print(character.size)
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