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How to Convert PDF to Word using Python and PyMuPDF

There is no such thing as a paragraph, heading, or table in a PDF; there are glyphs, each one drawn at some x and y position on a page, and some rectangles and lines. So every converter from PDF to Word is really a small program for layout analysis: grouping glyphs into lines, deciding which lines are together, and writing the result as styled .docx objects. osFoundry desktop…

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A programmer has recreated the PDF to Word conversion process of the osFoundry desktop app's PDF Editor in about 50 lines of Python code using PyMuPDF and python-docx. The code analyses the layout of a PDF page, grouping glyphs into lines and determining which lines belong together. The test page, a one-page document with a company name, title, introduction lines, and a table, was used to compare the results of the Python code with the app's conversion.

The PDF page consists of 327 glyphs, including 277 non-space characters, and is divided into 16 lines.

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