Convert PDF to .docx with Python

Question

I'm trying very hard to find the way to convert a PDF file to a .docx file with Python.

I have seen other posts related with this, but none of them seem to work correctly in my case.

I'm using specifically

import os
import subprocess

for top, dirs, files in os.walk('/my/pdf/folder'):
    for filename in files:
        if filename.endswith('.pdf'):
            abspath = os.path.join(top, filename)
            subprocess.call('lowriter --invisible --convert-to doc "{}"'
                            .format(abspath), shell=True)

This gives me Output[1], but then, I can't find any .docx document in my folder.

I have LibreOffice 5.3 installed.

Any clues about it?

Thank you in advance!

Solution 1

I am not aware of a way to convert a pdf file into a Word file using libreoffice.
However, you can convert from a pdf to a html and then convert the html to a docx.
Firstly, get the commands running on the command line. (The following is on Linux. So you may have to fill in path names to the soffice binary and use a full path for the input file on your OS)

soffice --convert-to html ./my_pdf_file.pdf

then

soffice --convert-to docx:'MS Word 2007 XML' ./my_pdf_file.html

You should end up with:

my_pdf_file.pdf
my_pdf_file.html
my_pdf_file.docx

Now wrap the commands in your subprocess code

Solution 2

I use this for multiple files

####
from pdf2docx import Converter
import os

# # # dir_path for input reading and output files & a for loop # # #

path_input = '/pdftodocx/input/'
path_output = '/pdftodocx/output/'

for file in os.listdir(path_input):
    cv = Converter(path_input+file)
    cv.convert(path_output+file+'.docx', start=0, end=None)
    cv.close()
    print(file)

Solution 3

Below code worked for me.

import win32com.client
word = win32com.client.Dispatch("Word.Application")
word.visible = 1
pdfdoc = 'NewDoc.pdf'
todocx = 'NewDoc.docx'
wb1 = word.Documents.Open(pdfdoc)
wb1.SaveAs(todocx, FileFormat=16)  # file format for docx
wb1.Close()
word.Quit()

Solution 4

My approach does not follow the same methodology of using subsystems. However this one does the job of reading through all the pages of a PDF document and moving them to a docx file. Note: It only works with text; images and other objects are usually ignored.

#Description: This python script will allow you to fetch text information from a pdf file

#import libraries

import PyPDF2
import os
import docx

mydoc = docx.Document() # document type
pdfFileObj = open('pdf/filename.pdf', 'rb') # pdffile loction
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj) # define pdf reader object

# Loop through all the pages

for pageNum in range(1, pdfReader.numPages):
        pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(pageNum)
        pdfContent = pageObj.extractText()  #extracts the content from the page. 
        print(pdfContent) # print statement to test output in the terminal. codeline optional.
        mydoc.add_paragraph(pdfContent) # this adds the content to the word document
        
mydoc.save("pdf/filename.docx") # Give a name to your output file. 

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Comments

[PythonProgrammi]

It says that it's impossible to opend the file