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copied!<p>I know it is poor taste to answer your own question, but I think I may have figured this out and I don't want anyone else to waste their time looking for a solution to my problem.</p> <p>I followed the suggestion in a one of the links posted in my question and re-purposed the current pdf2txt.py script included with pdfminer. Here is the function in case it is useful to anyone else. Thanks to the user skyl for posting that answer, all I had to to was make a couple of changes to make it work with the current version of pdfminer. </p> <p>This function take a pdf and creates a .txt file in the same directory with the same name.</p> <pre><code>def convert_pdf(path, outtype='txt', opts={}): import sys from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFDocument, PDFParser from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter, process_pdf from pdfminer.pdfdevice import PDFDevice, TagExtractor from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter from pdfminer.cmapdb import CMapDB from pdfminer.layout import LAParams import getopt outfile = path[:-3] + outtype outdir = '/'.join(path.split('/')[:-1]) # debug option debug = 0 # input option password = '' pagenos = set() maxpages = 0 # output option # ?outfile = None # ?outtype = None outdir = None #layoutmode = 'normal' codec = 'utf-8' pageno = 1 scale = 1 showpageno = True laparams = LAParams() for (k, v) in opts: if k == '-d': debug += 1 elif k == '-p': pagenos.update( int(x)-1 for x in v.split(',') ) elif k == '-m': maxpages = int(v) elif k == '-P': password = v elif k == '-o': outfile = v elif k == '-n': laparams = None elif k == '-A': laparams.all_texts = True elif k == '-V': laparams.detect_vertical = True elif k == '-M': laparams.char_margin = float(v) elif k == '-L': laparams.line_margin = float(v) elif k == '-W': laparams.word_margin = float(v) elif k == '-F': laparams.boxes_flow = float(v) elif k == '-Y': layoutmode = v elif k == '-O': outdir = v elif k == '-t': outtype = v elif k == '-c': codec = v elif k == '-s': scale = float(v) # #PDFDocument.debug = debug #PDFParser.debug = debug CMapDB.debug = debug PDFResourceManager.debug = debug PDFPageInterpreter.debug = debug PDFDevice.debug = debug # rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() outtype = 'text' if outfile: outfp = file(outfile, 'w') else: outfp = sys.stdout device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, outfp, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) fp = file(path, 'rb') process_pdf(rsrcmgr, device, fp, pagenos, maxpages=maxpages, password=password, check_extractable=True) fp.close() device.close() outfp.close() return </code></pre>

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