Reading PDF files

Question

12 Years Ago

Is there a way to read Adobe PDF files with Python?

vegaseat 1,735 · Answer 1 · 2006-12-21T08:13:24+00:00

To read and manage Portable Document Files you can use the open source ReportLab toolkit (written in Python) from:
http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html

bumsfeld 413 · Answer 2 · 2006-12-22T00:30:34+00:00

If you have a PC with Windows, you can use wxPython to read PDF files, check:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html

radc · Answer 3 · 2010-09-07T01:04:14+00:00

import os
os.startfile("myfile.pdf")

rogerluz · Answer 4 · 2011-08-02T03:51:45+00:00

2.1.5 Does ReportLab support reading PDFs?

No, the Open Source package doesn't do this.

That's what our commercial PageCatcher product does.