I have used Fitz so far to extract things like Font, Text size, etc in a pdf file. What are some other good tools/ libraries that can extract some meaningful metadata about the contents of the pdf?
Some libraries also store the metadata of complete pdf rather than the content. ( Not looking for those) .
Any techniques are also helpful for the same.
Perhaps, you will be able to try this approach:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59909520/extracting-the-keywords-from-pdf-metadata-in-python
Thanks, Anton Vrdoljak for the answer. But I am specifically looking for the metadata information about the text or contents of the pdf. This one gives information about the document as a whole and not some specific part.
Metadata stored is quite similar to Apache tika library i.e. document-level metadata storage.
e.g. This is the example using fitz library
'spans': [{'bbox': (76.95690155029297,
272.21923828125,
141.96690368652344,
292.8742370605469),
'color': 16777215,
'flags': 16,
'font': 'Arial-BoldMT',
'size': 15.0,
'text': 'PROFILE'}],
It tells metadata about the text Profile only. I want similar ones.
Sir.. I hope these links are partially helpful to your query
https://www.pdf-tools.com/pdf20/en/products/pdf-manipulation/pdf-extract/#c9641
https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/pdf-properties-metadata.html https://exiftool.org/ ( https://exiftool.org/ )
Thanks, G. Stephen , pdf-tools also does not provide enough metadata as compared to PYMUPDF.
Pdf-tool provides detail about only positions of text.
PYMUPDF can provide more details. eg.
'spans': [{'bbox': (76.95690155029297,
272.21923828125,
141.96690368652344,
292.8742370605469),
'color': 16777215,
'flags': 16,
'font': 'Arial-BoldMT',
'size': 15.0,
'text': 'PROFILE'}],
where PROFILE was a heading in the pdf.
I think a better solution is possible by exploring pdf-structure and how it stores references. Then trying to code the same.
Great sir... thanks to introduced PYMUPDF to me... i will followed surely
@Ashay Singh
You can use Dixit Reader to view metadata of the pdf document. You just open the document and choose file then properties after that select the Description tab. Foxit PhantomPDF software is user-friendly
First you open the pdf file. Then choose tools given on the top right corner. Then Edit PDF then click Edit text and images. Select an object then right click on the selection portion and then choose Metadata
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