Files
old-books/_pipeline/pdftext.py
T
2026-10-17 15:27:14 -05:00

77 lines
3.0 KiB
Python

"""Read a PDF's text layer and image positions with poppler. No guessing: coordinates in, text out."""
import os
import re
import subprocess
import tempfile
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
def _run(cmd):
return subprocess.run(cmd, check=True, capture_output=True, text=True).stdout
def page_geometry(pdf):
"""[(width, height)] per page as displayed (rotation applied)."""
n = int(re.search(r"^Pages:\s+(\d+)", _run(["pdfinfo", pdf]), re.M).group(1))
out = _run(["pdfinfo", "-f", "1", "-l", str(n), pdf])
sizes = {int(m[0]): (float(m[1]), float(m[2])) for m in re.findall(r"^Page\s+(\d+) size:\s+([\d.]+) x ([\d.]+)", out, re.M)}
rots = {int(m[0]): int(m[1]) for m in re.findall(r"^Page\s+(\d+) rot:\s+(\d+)", out, re.M)}
geo = []
for p in range(1, n + 1):
w, h = sizes[p]
if rots.get(p, 0) in (90, 270):
w, h = h, w
geo.append((w, h))
return geo
def halves(width, height):
"""A landscape page that holds two book pages is read as two units, left then right."""
if width > height * 1.2:
return [("L", 0, width / 2), ("R", width / 2, width / 2)]
return [(None, 0, width)]
def chars_per_page(pdf):
"""Number of non-space characters in the text layer of each page."""
n = len(page_geometry(pdf))
out = []
for p in range(1, n + 1):
txt = _run(["pdftotext", "-f", str(p), "-l", str(p), pdf, "-"])
out.append(len(re.sub(r"\s", "", txt)))
return out
def units(pdf):
"""Reading units in order: [{'pdf_page', 'half', 'text'}]. Text keeps the layout (indentation, hyphens)."""
result = []
for p, (w, h) in enumerate(page_geometry(pdf), start=1):
for half, x, width in halves(w, h):
text = _run(["pdftotext", "-layout", "-f", str(p), "-l", str(p),
"-x", str(int(x)), "-y", "0", "-W", str(int(width)), "-H", str(int(h)), pdf, "-"])
result.append({"pdf_page": p, "half": half, "text": text.replace("\f", "")})
return result
def images(pdf):
"""Images with their page, half and pixel size: [{'pdf_page', 'half', 'width', 'height'}]."""
geo = page_geometry(pdf)
found = []
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
subprocess.run(["pdftohtml", "-xml", "-q", pdf, os.path.join(tmp, "o")], check=True, capture_output=True)
root = ET.parse(os.path.join(tmp, "o.xml")).getroot()
for page in root.iter("page"):
p = int(page.get("number"))
w, h = geo[p - 1]
scale = float(page.get("width")) / w
for img in page.iter("image"):
cx = (float(img.get("left")) + float(img.get("width")) / 2) / scale
half = None
for name, x, width in halves(w, h):
if x <= cx < x + width:
half = name
found.append({"pdf_page": p, "half": half,
"width": round(float(img.get("width")) / scale),
"height": round(float(img.get("height")) / scale)})
return found