Python pdf parser

As a next logical step to parsing Word documents, I thought about exploring the possibilities of using the Python Code tool to parse text from PDF documents. Intro. This comes quite frequently as a Create a PDF parser object associated with the StringIO object parser = PDFParser(memory_file) #. Convert start_date string to Python date format dat = datetime.datetime.strptime(start_date, '%d Scrape tables from PDF files with Python packages, including tabula-py, camelot, and excalibur. This post will go through a few ways of scraping tables from PDFs with Python.