How to extract data from a PDF file while keeping track of its structure?

Question

My objective is to extract the text and images from a PDF file while parsing its structure. The scope for parsing the structure is not exhaustive; I only need to be able to

Answer 1

PDF files can be parsed with tabula-py, or tabula-java.

I made a full tutorial on how to use tabula-py on this article. You can tabula in a web-browser too as long as you have installed Java.