PDFminer: extract text with its font information

Question

I find this question, but it uses command line, and I do not want to call a Python script in command line using subprocess and parse HTML files to get the font information.

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.converter import PDFPageAggregator
import pdfminer


def createPDFDoc(fpath):
    fp = open(fpath, 'rb')
    parser = PDFParser(fp)
    document = PDFDocument(parser, password='')
    # Check if the document allows text extraction. If not, abort.
    if not document.is_extractable:
        raise "Not extractable"
    else:
        return document


def createDeviceInterpreter():
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    laparams = LAParams()
    device = PDFPageAggregator(rsrcmgr, laparams=laparams)
    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
    return device, interpreter


def parse_obj(objs):
    for obj in objs:
        if isinstance(obj, pdfminer.layout.LTTextBox):
            for o in obj._objs:
                if isinstance(o,pdfminer.layout.LTTextLine):
                    text=o.get_text()
                    if text.strip():
                        for c in  o._objs:
                            if isinstance(c, pdfminer.layout.LTChar):
                                print "fontname %s"%c.fontname
        # if it's a container, recurse
        elif isinstance(obj, pdfminer.layout.LTFigure):
            parse_obj(obj._objs)
        else:
            pass


document=createPDFDoc("/tmp/simple.pdf")
device,interpreter=createDeviceInterpreter()
pages=PDFPage.create_pages(document)
interpreter.process_page(pages.next())
layout = device.get_result()


parse_obj(layout._objs)