pdf2htmlEX | Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format | Document Editor library

I want to extract the text content of this PDF: https://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/ESET_Okrum_and_Ketrican.pdf

Here is my code:

I'm developing a Python Flask webapp and I'm trying to convert some user uploaded pdfs to nicely formatted HTML, like the HTML that is being produced when you display a pdf inside an iframe.

I tried several things so far:

• the pdfminer.six library, produced messy HTML,
• trying to grab the produced HTML, when rendering a PDF with pdf.js, which is apparently hidden in a Shadow DOM with no access to its inner HTML
• finally I came across pdf2htmlEX (https://github.com/pdf2htmlEX/pdf2htmlEX) which produced exactly what I wanted.

Locally, this solution worked great, however in the production state (Heroku) I was unable to install it correctly. The project is deprecated and the documentation is limited and terrible. The problem has something to do with broken dependencies.

So, how to convert PDFs to HTML effectively without losing any format using Python or any other tool?

Thanks a lots.

if anyone is willing to help me getting the pdf2htmlEX to work on heroku, leave a comment and I will post more details in a different post

I want to develop a Python script that can find all of the figure captions within a PDF. I was wondering if it is possible to gather all the figure captions and append them to an array as it is searching for new figure captions.

I have tried searching for the word "Figure" and then grabbing the entire sentence that is present within it, but it is not efficient because it wouldn't find all of the sentences within the caption, and instead, only the sentence that is separated with a period.

EDIT The following is a sample PDF that I intend to be working with. As you see, the word Fig.1 is written right below the image.

NEW EDIT Here is the full HTML file that was converted with pdf2htmlEX: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hYriVrTlwmxR35A2Jy7mKoO4ns2oWe3Z

I'm trying to install a package from GitHub with yarn.

I have done this thing a lot before, but I'm not success with this repo:

https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX

I already tried without luck:

I am trying to automatically save a PDF file created with pdftohtmlEX (https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX) using the selenium (chrome) webdriver.

It almost works except captions of figures and sometimes even part of the figures are missing.

Manually saved:

Automatically saved using selenium & chrome webdriver:

Here is my code (you need the chromium webdriver (http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads) in the same folder as this script):

I have a program that converts pdfs into html and I needed to complement this program so after converting It would search for the tags PA/ and the character in front of it and save these tags and characters to a CSV file, I'm trying to do it but I can't.

Here's the code so far:

I am in the process of a setting up a CircleCI 2.0 configuration and I am needing to include the ubuntu package 'pdf2htmlex', but I am being given the following error:

My program does all that I want, but is not saving the final data to the csv file, I used a print before it to see if the data was right and it is, It is just not writing to the csv file, I'm using 'a' because I don't want it to rewrite what's already written, but it is still returning an error.

here's the part of the code:

I've got some code, and I'm currently trying to parse a table using beautifulsoup and get it written on a file but it keeps returning an error.

Here's the entire code: