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  1. Sign up for DocHub: you can use your email or the register with Google choice.
  2. Once logged in, it will take you to your Dashboard, where you will discover a neat-looking layout of your files.
  3. Hit the New Document button in the upper-left corner to upload or import a new document using another service of your choosing.
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  5. On the top toolbar, find the option to Extract metadata from PDF, apply it to your document, and save changes.
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How to Extract metadata from PDF

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The tutorial covers extracting metadata from PDF files using Python. Metadata includes information like title, author, and creation date, all of which are searchable. To follow along, you'll need the PyPDF library installed. You can easily install it using pip. Make sure to have a PDF file to work with placed in the same folder as the code file. The tutorial uses a simple PDF file with text and images.

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Open up a new Python file and follow along: from PIL import Image from PIL. # path to the image or video imagename = image.jpg # read the image data using PIL image = Image. # extract other basic metadata infodict = { Filename: image. # extract EXIF data exifdata = image.
Pythons PDFQuery is a potent tool for extracting data from PDF files.
How to Extract PDF Metadata in Python import pikepdf import sys. # get the target pdf file from the command-line arguments pdffilename = sys. # read the pdf file pdf = pikepdf. $ python extractpdfmetadatasimple.
How to view PDF metadata? Open the concerned PDF document in docHub and go to File Properties Description. It will show you a window that consists of different components of the metadata of the concerned PDF document.
Finally, to extract the text from the PDF document, you first need to get the page of the PDF document using the getPage() function. Next, you can call the extractText() function to extract the text from that particular page.
Choose File Properties, and click the Additional Metadata button in the Description tab. Click Advanced to display all the metadata embedded in the document. (Metadata is displayed by schemathat is, in predefined groups of related information.)

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