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The environment

  • 10 64 – bit Windows
  • Anaconda with python 3.7
  • Pdf2docx 0.5.2

preface

Converting PDF files to Word files is a very common operation, and I believe most people’s free solution is to use some online conversion service, but there is a data leakage problem. This article introduces an open source and free native conversion tool, PDf2docx.

Install pdf2docx

The installation method is very simple, using the PIP directive, execute

pip install pdf2docx
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After the successful installation, in addition to the basic library, pdf2Docx also provides us with an executable file pdf2docx.

For daily use, you can convert PDF to DOCX directly using executable files; If you need to use it in Python code, you can use the API it provides.

Command Line use

Use pdf2docx –help to view the help information on the command line

INFO: Showing help with the command 'pdf2docx -- --help'.

NAME
    pdf2docx - Command line interface for ``pdf2docx``.

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx COMMAND | -

DESCRIPTION
    Command line interface for ``pdf2docx``.

COMMANDS
    COMMAND is one of the following:

     convert
       Convert pdf file to docx file.

     debug
       Convert one PDF page and plot layout information for debugging.

     gui
       Simple user interface.

     table
       Extract table content from pdf pages.
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The above help lists the directives supported by PDF2DocX. Here we will focus on convert and GUI

  • convert

    This is the core function of convert. Convert itself provides a number of parameters, which can be viewed using pdf2docx convert –help. This method also applies to other directives, which we will not detail later

    (base) PS C:\Users\Administrator> pdf2docx.exe convert --help
INFO: Showing help with the command 'pdf2docx convert -- --help'.

NAME
    pdf2docx convert - Convert pdf file to docx file.

SYNOPSIS
    pdf2docx convert PDF_FILE <flags>

DESCRIPTION
    Convert pdf file to docx file.

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
    PDF_FILE
        Type: str
        PDF filename to read from.

FLAGS
    --docx_file=DOCX_FILE
        Type: Optional[str]
        Default: None
        docx filename to write to. Defaults to None.
    --password=PASSWORD
        Type: Optional[str]
        Default: None
        Password for encrypted pdf. Default to None if not encrypted.
    --start=START
        Type: int
        Default: 0
        First page to process. Defaults to 0.
    --end=END
        Type: Optional[int]
        Default: None
        Last page to process. Defaults to None.
    --pages=PAGES
        Type: Optional[list]
        Default: None
        Range of pages. Defaults to None.
    Additional flags are accepted.
        Configuration parameters.

        .. note

NOTES
    You can also use flags syntax for POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS
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    To convert all pages in a PDF, simply perform the following steps

    pdf2docx.exe convert test.pdf test.docx
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    Start on page 3 and finish

    pdf2docx.exe convert test.pdf test.docx --start=2
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    From the beginning to page 10

    pdf2docx.exe convert test.pdf test.docx --end=10
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    From page 2 to page 5

    pdf2docx.exe convert test.pdf test.docx --start=1 --end=5
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    Note that both start and end start at 0

    Of course, discrete pages can also be converted at once, for example

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    This can be done if the PDF is encrypted

    pdf2docx.exe convert test.pdf test.docx --password=PASSWORD
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  • gui

    If you’re not used to using the command line, pdf2Docx also provides a simple graphical interface that can be called up by typing into the PDf2Docx GUI from CMD. It is really very rough, the text of the button is not fully displayed, but the function is OK.

The use of API

If you want to convert PDF to DOCx in Python, pdf2Docx provides a full API for us, let’s take a look at the simplest example

from pdf2docx import Converter

    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    
    pdf_file = "test.pdf"
    docx_file = "test.docx"

    conv = Converter(pdf_file)
    conv.convert(docx_file, start=0, end=None)
    conv.close()
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More detailed API documentation, you can refer to link dothinking. Making. IO/pdf2docx/mo…

limitations

The current VERSION of PDF2DOCX only works with text-based PDFS and is read from left to right. You need to be careful when you use it.

Python utility module topics

For more useful Python modules, go

Xugaoxiang.com/category/py…

The resources

  • Github.com/dothinking/…