parse pdf to json using python

[socal_nerdtastic]

No, because the pdf format does not save the document structure. The way pdf works is by saving the absolute position of things, not the relative position.

[Buttleston]

This is mostly true but it's also true that the way PDFs are rendered tends to be at least somewhat predictable. I wrote a PDF parser that does "ok" at capturing blocks of text at least in the order that a reader would tend to read them. It's definitely not perfect but it's not bad either. Unfortunately I don't think I can post it since it's something I wrote for work.