[BangPypers] Retrieving images from PDFs

[Anand Balachandran Pillai]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy <
srinivas_thatiparthy at akebonosoft.com> wrote:

> Though I never tried it, Reportlab has a pdf library (If I am not
> wrong).
> Have you tried it??
>
>
> When the limestone of imperative programming is worn away, the granite
> of functional programming will be observed. ---Simon Peyton Jones.
>
>
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> rg] On Behalf Of Shashwat Anand
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:49 PM
> To: Bangalore Python Users Group - India
> Subject: [BangPypers] Retrieving images from PDFs
>
> How can we retrieve images from PDFs. I need both images and the text
> beneath the image to form a database. I was able to parse text via
> PDFMiner but was crippled when it leads to images.
>

Use pyPdf. I have worked a bit on PDF structure using pyPdf and written a
library
on top of it for PDF accessibility so I can help you to do this. If you want

help contact me off list.


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--Anand