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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Exercise pdfminer, looking deeply into a PDF document, print some stats to stdout
+# Usage: pdfstats.py <PDF-filename>
+
+import sys, os
+import collections
+
+from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
+from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
+from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage, PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed
+from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
+from pdfminer.pdfdevice import PDFDevice
+from pdfminer.converter import PDFPageAggregator
+from pdfminer.layout import LAParams, LTContainer
+
+
+_, SCRIPT = os.path.split(__file__)
+
+def msg(*args, **kwargs):
+    print(' '.join(map(str, args)), file=sys.stdout, **kwargs)
+
+def flat_iter(obj):
+    yield obj
+    if isinstance(obj, LTContainer):
+        for ob in obj:
+            yield from flat_iter(ob)
+
+def main(args):
+    msg(SCRIPT, args)
+
+    if len(args) != 1:
+        msg('Parse a PDF file and print some pdfminer-specific stats')
+        msg('Usage:', SCRIPT, '<PDF-filename>')
+        return 1
+
+    infilename, = args
+
+    lt_types = collections.Counter()
+
+    with open(infilename, 'rb') as pdf_file:
+
+        # Create a PDF parser object associated with the file object.
+        parser = PDFParser(pdf_file)
+
+        # Create a PDF document object that stores the document structure.
+        # Supply the password for initialization.
+        password = ''
+        document = PDFDocument(parser, password)
+        # Check if the document allows text extraction.
+        if not document.is_extractable:
+            raise PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed(filename)
+
+        # Make a page iterator
+        pages = PDFPage.create_pages(document)
+
+
+        # Set up for some analysis
+        rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
+        laparams = LAParams(
+            detect_vertical=True,
+            all_texts=True,
+            )
+        #device = PDFDevice(rsrcmgr)
+        device = PDFPageAggregator(rsrcmgr, laparams=laparams)
+        interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
+
+        # Look at all (nested) objects on each page
+        for page_count, page in enumerate(pages, 1):
+            # oh so stateful
+            interpreter.process_page(page)
+            layout = device.get_result()
+
+            lt_types.update(type(item).__name__ for item in flat_iter(layout))
+
+    msg('page_count', page_count)
+    msg('lt_types:', ' '.join('{}:{}'.format(*tc) for tc in lt_types.items()))
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main(sys.argv[1:]))