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pdfsearch
pdfsearch finds text strings inside a pdf. It relies on pdftotext from the Poppler library.
Installation
You must install Poppler, and add it to your search path.
Windows: http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows
Linux: sudo apt install poppler-utils
Mac: brew install poppler
Then
pip install tqdm
Then
git clone http://git.wrl.unsw.edu.au:3000/danh/pdfsearch.git
cd pdfsearch
python setup.py install
Or put a copy of pdfsearch.py in your working directory.
Usage
>>> from pdfsearch import search_pdf
>>> pdf_name = 'animal-farm.pdf'
>>> search_patterns = ['horse', 'pig']
>>> context_length = 2
>>> results = search_pdf(pdf_name, search_patterns, context_length)
>>> import pandas as pd
>>> pd.DataFrame(results)
document page pattern word context
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animal-farm.pdf 1 horse cart-horses, The two cart-horses, Boxer
animal-farm.pdf 1 horse horses two ordinary horses put together.
animal-farm.pdf 1 horse horses the horses came
animal-farm.pdf 1 pig pig, a majestic-looking pig, with a
animal-farm.pdf 1 pig pigs, the pigs, who
animal-farm.pdf 1 pig pigeons window-sills, the pigeons fluttered up
animal-farm.pdf 1 pig pigs the pigs and began
animal-farm.pdf 2 horse horses The two horses had just
Search patterns should be lowercase, unless case-sensitivity is important. For example:
'ph' will match:
'photograph''PHANTOM''pH'
'pH' will match:
'pH'