PDF Data Extraction using Python and Selenium

Author: Ayush Agarwal (@thisisayush), Letstream License: GNU General Public License V3

Features

Extracting data from PDF by loading the PDF in browser and then extracting data.

• Support Headless Mode, for servers and systemd services.
• Supports Extraction using Firefox/Chrome.
• Writes all the text extracted in a data.txt file in CWD.

Requirements

• For running in Headless Mode, install any one of the backends from https://pyvirtualdisplay.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Geckodriver (for firefox) and Chromedriver (for Chrome)
• Tested on xvfb backend sudo apt install xvfb and chrome/firefox on Ubuntu Server 18.04
• Tested on Non-Headless Mode in Windows 10 Chrome/Firefox.

How to use

Import the Extractor class and initialise it with following parameters

• browser: Required, must be on of Extractor.CHROME or Extractor.FIREFOX
• executable_path: Required, must be complete absolute path to the corrosponding webdriver (chromedriver or geckodriver) executable
• headless: Default (True), whether to run in a PyVirtualDisplay or Normal Mode.

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