norbert-acedanski / pdf-processing

Small project, that helps with pdf processing.

pdf-processing

About The Project

Small project, that helps with pdf processing. It removes all end-line characters from paragraphs, specified inside the file, adds spaces between paragraphs and tabulations at the beginning of each paragraph if required. Also, possible to fully justify the document.

Built With

Python 3.9.10

Getting started

Requirements

All required packages in requirements.txt file.

To install all required packages, type:

pip install -r requirements.txt

in the terminal.

Working with pdf-processing:

1. Copy text you need to process to a text_to_process.txt or to any other file and save it.
2. Use load_text_from_file function to read data from file.
3. Use process_data_to_txt or process_data_to_word to process text accordingly to the format, you want to save in.
4. Use save_data_to_txt or save_data_to_word to save data corresponding to the function you used previously.
5. After successful execution, a file with proper extension (.txt or .docx) should be created with processed text.

Usage

I personally use it as a quick way of processing pdf files for .docx usage (listening to the text). In order to listen to the document without having breaks at the end-line characters, that are present when copying directly from pdf to word document, they need to be removed. Manually processing all changes requires more time, than using the script.

Script project contains also a sample txt file for processing.

Licence

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for more information.