To search a PDF file, we’ll use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET, a powerful and easy-to-use API. Open PyPI, install it, and search for aspose-pdf
. Alternatively, run the command:
Search PDF File via Python
You need Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to try the code in your environment.
- Load the PDF with an instance of Document.
- Create TextFragmentAbsorber Object with text to find as parameter.
- Get all extracted text fragments collection.
- Loop through each fragment to get all of its information.
Search PDF Files - Python
import aspose.pdf as apdf
from os import path
path_infile = path.join(self.data_dir, infile)
document = apdf.Document(path_infile)
# Create TextAbsorber object to find all instances of the input search phrase
textFragmentAbsorber = apdf.text.TextFragmentAbsorber("PDF")
# Accept the absorber for all the pages
document.pages.accept(textFragmentAbsorber)
# Loop through the fragments
for textFragment in textFragmentAbsorber.text_fragments:
print(f"Text : {textFragment.text}" )
print(f"Position : {textFragment.position}")
print(f"XIndent : {textFragment.position.x_indent}")
print(f"YIndent : {textFragment.position.y_indent}")
print(f"Font - Name : {textFragment.text_state.font.font_name}" )
print(f"Font - IsAccessible : {textFragment.text_state.font.is_accessible} " )
print(f"Font - IsEmbedded : {textFragment.text_state.font.is_embedded} " )
print(f"Font - IsSubset : {textFragment.text_state.font.is_subset} ")
print(f"Font Size : {textFragment.text_state.font_size}" )
print(f"Foreground Color : {textFragment.text_state.foreground_color} " )