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Jay chuks
Jay chuks

Reputation: 389

Convert pdf to docx format in python

Please how do I convert pdf to docx. I tried converting to html using pdfminer to extract the text but still doesn't look good enough.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1504

Answers (1)

thrinadhn
thrinadhn

Reputation: 2523

pdf2docx

  1. Install the pdf2docx package Click here

Installation

  • Clone or download pdf2docx

     pip install pdf2docx
     or
 # download the package and install your environment
 python setup.py install

  • Option 1

    from pdf2docx import Converter

pdf_file  = r'C:\Users\ABCD\Desktop\XYZ/Document1.pdf'# source file 
docx_file = r'C:\Users\ABCD\Desktop\XYZ/sample.docx'  # destination file

# convert pdf to docx
cv = Converter(pdf_file)
cv.convert(docx_file, start=0, end=None)
cv.close()

#Output

Parsing Page 53: 53/53...
Creating Page 53: 53/53...
--------------------------------------------------
Terminated in 6.258919400000195s.

  • Option 2

    from pdf2docx import parse

pdf_file  = r'C:\Users\ABCD\Desktop\XYZ/Document2.pdf' # source file
docx_file = r'C:\Users\ABCD\Desktop\XYZ/sample_2.docx' # destination file

# convert pdf to docx
parse(pdf_file, docx_file, start=0, end=None)

# output
Parsing Page 53: 53/53...
Creating Page 53: 53/53...
--------------------------------------------------
Terminated in 5.883666100000482s.

Upvotes: 5

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