Simple fork of the original repo to fix the bash installer scripts, if you had the SystemExit: Did not detect correctly installed xpdf. error this is the right repo for you.

PLUS: Added to_png extraction wrapper (for png extraction you need Pillow library pip install Pillow)

version number: 0.0.10

author: Edward Atkins

python >= 3.4

Python wrapper for xpdf (currently just the "pdftotext" utility)

To install using pip from pypi:

$ pip install xpdf_python

To install using pip from github:

$ pip install git+https://github.com:/ecatkins/xpdf_python

To make this work you have to install xpdf in your system, you can find more info and the download link here: http://www.xpdfreader.com I also updated the bash scripts that automatically install xpdf, so if it fails simply run the script in install_xpdf subdirectory

Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/Togn3K/xpdf_python.git
$ python setup.py install

The package will attempt to automatically install xpdf. If this fails use either:

1. Instructions for your OS found here OR
2. The bash scripts found in this repo's install_xpdf subdirectory

macOS, Linux

Note: For Linux you may need to install the libxp6 library:

sudo apt install libxp6 (Ubuntu)
sudo yum install libXp.so.6 (Centos)

from xpdf_python import to_text

pdf_location = '/path/to/my.pdf'
text = to_text(pdf_location)