自Codeape发布以来，PDFMiner软件包已更改。
编辑（再次）：
PDFMiner版本已再次更新 20100213
您可以使用以下方法检查已安装的版本：
>>> import pdfminer
>>> pdfminer.__version__
'20100213'
这是更新的版本（带有有关我更改/添加的内容的注释）：
def pdf_to_csv(filename):
from cStringIO import StringIO #<-- added so you can copy/paste this to try it
from pdfminer.converter import LTTextItem, TextConverter
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFDocument, PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
class CsvConverter(TextConverter):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
TextConverter.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def end_page(self, i):
from collections import defaultdict
lines = defaultdict(lambda : {})
for child in self.cur_item.objs:
if isinstance(child, LTTextItem):
(_,_,x,y) = child.bbox #<-- changed
line = lines[int(-y)]
line[x] = child.text.encode(self.codec) #<-- changed
for y in sorted(lines.keys()):
line = lines[y]
self.outfp.write(";".join(line[x] for x in sorted(line.keys())))
self.outfp.write("\n")
# ... the following part of the code is a remix of the
# convert() function in the pdfminer/tools/pdf2text module
rsrc = PDFResourceManager()
outfp = StringIO()
device = CsvConverter(rsrc, outfp, codec="utf-8") #<-- changed
# becuase my test documents are utf-8 (note: utf-8 is the default codec)
doc = PDFDocument()
fp = open(filename, 'rb')
parser = PDFParser(fp) #<-- changed
parser.set_document(doc) #<-- added
doc.set_parser(parser) #<-- added
doc.initialize('')
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrc, device)
for i, page in enumerate(doc.get_pages()):
outfp.write("START PAGE %d\n" % i)
interpreter.process_page(page)
outfp.write("END PAGE %d\n" % i)
device.close()
fp.close()
return outfp.getvalue()
编辑（再次）：
下面是最新版本的更新的PyPI，20100619p1。简而言之，我替换LTTextItem了LTCharLAParams实例并将其传递给CsvConverter构造函数。
def pdf_to_csv(filename):
from cStringIO import StringIO
from pdfminer.converter import LTChar, TextConverter #<-- changed
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFDocument, PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
class CsvConverter(TextConverter):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
TextConverter.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def end_page(self, i):
from collections import defaultdict
lines = defaultdict(lambda : {})
for child in self.cur_item.objs:
if isinstance(child, LTChar): #<-- changed
(_,_,x,y) = child.bbox
line = lines[int(-y)]
line[x] = child.text.encode(self.codec)
for y in sorted(lines.keys()):
line = lines[y]
self.outfp.write(";".join(line[x] for x in sorted(line.keys())))
self.outfp.write("\n")
# ... the following part of the code is a remix of the
# convert() function in the pdfminer/tools/pdf2text module
rsrc = PDFResourceManager()
outfp = StringIO()
device = CsvConverter(rsrc, outfp, codec="utf-8", laparams=LAParams()) #<-- changed
# becuase my test documents are utf-8 (note: utf-8 is the default codec)
doc = PDFDocument()
fp = open(filename, 'rb')
parser = PDFParser(fp)
parser.set_document(doc)
doc.set_parser(parser)
doc.initialize('')
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrc, device)
for i, page in enumerate(doc.get_pages()):
outfp.write("START PAGE %d\n" % i)
if page is not None:
interpreter.process_page(page)
outfp.write("END PAGE %d\n" % i)
device.close()
fp.close()
return outfp.getvalue()
编辑（再过一次）：
已更新版本20110515（感谢Oeufcoque Penteano！）：
def pdf_to_csv(filename):
from cStringIO import StringIO
from pdfminer.converter import LTChar, TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFDocument, PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
class CsvConverter(TextConverter):
def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
TextConverter.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
def end_page(self, i):
from collections import defaultdict
lines = defaultdict(lambda : {})
for child in self.cur_item._objs: #<-- changed
if isinstance(child, LTChar):
(_,_,x,y) = child.bbox
line = lines[int(-y)]
line[x] = child._text.encode(self.codec) #<-- changed
for y in sorted(lines.keys()):
line = lines[y]
self.outfp.write(";".join(line[x] for x in sorted(line.keys())))
self.outfp.write("\n")
# ... the following part of the code is a remix of the
# convert() function in the pdfminer/tools/pdf2text module
rsrc = PDFResourceManager()
outfp = StringIO()
device = CsvConverter(rsrc, outfp, codec="utf-8", laparams=LAParams())
# becuase my test documents are utf-8 (note: utf-8 is the default codec)
doc = PDFDocument()
fp = open(filename, 'rb')
parser = PDFParser(fp)
parser.set_document(doc)
doc.set_parser(parser)
doc.initialize('')
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrc, device)
for i, page in enumerate(doc.get_pages()):
outfp.write("START PAGE %d\n" % i)
if page is not None:
interpreter.process_page(page)
outfp.write("END PAGE %d\n" % i)
device.close()
fp.close()
return outfp.getvalue()