> PDFQuery works by loading a PDF as a pdfminer layout, converting the layout to an etree with lxml.etree, and then applying a pyquery wrapper. All three underlying libraries are exposed, so you can use any of their interfaces to get at the data you want.
Here is a minimal Python script to dump the XML tree so you can load it in whatever other language you use and work with it from there.
#!/usr/bin/env python3
from pdfquery import PDFQuery
pdf = PDFQuery("some_document.pdf")
pdf.load()
pdf.tree.write("some_document.xml", pretty_print=True, encoding="utf-8")
It doesn’t work perfectly with all documents but it works well with many. Give it a try.
https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery
> PDFQuery works by loading a PDF as a pdfminer layout, converting the layout to an etree with lxml.etree, and then applying a pyquery wrapper. All three underlying libraries are exposed, so you can use any of their interfaces to get at the data you want.
Here is a minimal Python script to dump the XML tree so you can load it in whatever other language you use and work with it from there.
It doesn’t work perfectly with all documents but it works well with many. Give it a try.