extractText

A simple tool for extracting text from PDF, EPUB, TXT, and DOCX files. This library was primarily developed for personal use in various NLP-related projects.

Parsers used:

pdfplumber, pytesseract, PyPDF2, pdf2image and PIL for PDF processing

ebooklib, bs4 for EPUB

docx for DOCX

Installation

Install text-extra using pip:

pip install text-extra

Usage

from text_extractor import extract_text

extracted_text = extract_text(file_path)
if isinstance(extracted_text, dict):
    for key, value in extracted_text.items():
        print(f"--- {key} ---\n{value}\n")
else:
    print(extracted_text)