phongcao / pdf-azure-blob-extracter

This notebook reads a PDF file, extracts its images and content and upload them to Azure Blob storage.

pdf-azure-blob-extracter

This notebook reads a PDF file, extracts its images and content and upload them to Azure Blob storage.

After running, you can find the following blobs on Azure Blob storage:

[Container]/[PDF file name without ext]/content.md
[Container]/[PDF file name without ext]/img_1.png
[Container]/[PDF file name without ext]/img_2.png
[Container]/[PDF file name without ext]/img_3.png
...

In the content.md file, the embedded images are extracted and replaced by file names:

Text 1

![img_1.png](img_1.png)


Text 2

![img_2.png](img_2.png)


Text 3

![img_3.png](img_3.png)

It's easy to manipulate those image links to inject SAS tokens so that they can be fully rendered.

How to run

1. Copy the .env.template file to .env and fill in the required info.
2. Upgrade pip: pip install --upgrade pip.
3. Install dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt.
4. Modify the input file name, default is userguide.pdf.
5. Modify the output file name, default is userguide.md.
6. Modify footer and header font size under Special setttings if needed.
7. Run the notebook and check the blob storage for the extracted images and content.