In Python I'm using pdfminer to read the text from a pdf with the code below this message. I now get an error message saying:
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pdfminer/pdfpage.py", line 124, in get_pages
raise PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed('Text extraction is not allowed: %r' % fp)
PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed: Text extraction is not allowed: <cStringIO.StringO object at 0x7f79137a1
ab0>
When I open this pdf with Acrobat Pro it turns out it is secured (or "read protected"). From this link however, I read that there's a multitude of services which can disable this read-protection easily (for example pdfunlock.com. When diving into the source of pdfminer, I see that the error above is generated on these lines.
if check_extractable and not doc.is_extractable:
raise PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed('Text extraction is not allowed: %r' % fp)
Since there's a multitude of services which can disable this read-protection within a second, I presume it is really easy to do. It seems that .is_extractable
is a simple attribute of the doc
, but I don't think it is as simple as changing .is_extractable
to True..
Does anybody know how I can disable the read protection on a pdf using Python? All tips are welcome!
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Below you will find the code with which I currently extract the text from non-read protected.
def getTextFromPDF(rawFile):
resourceManager = PDFResourceManager(caching=True)
outfp = StringIO()
device = TextConverter(resourceManager, outfp, codec='utf-8', laparams=LAParams(), imagewriter=None)
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(resourceManager, device)
fileData = StringIO()
fileData.write(rawFile)
for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fileData, set(), maxpages=0, caching=True, check_extractable=True):
interpreter.process_page(page)
fileData.close()
device.close()
result = outfp.getvalue()
outfp.close()
return result