Extracting Text from PDF and Excel Files Using Apache Tika in Python

This tutorial shows how to extract text from PDF and Excel files using the tika-python library.

First, import the parser and parse a PDF file:

from tika import parser

# 解析PDF文件并获取文本内容

parsed_pdf = parser.from_file('example.pdf')

print(parsed_pdf['content'])

Similarly, for an Excel file:

parsed_xlsx = parser.from_file('example.xlsx')

print(parsed_xlsx['content']) # 注意：Excel内容可能以XML形式呈现

Note: Ensure tika-python is installed and the Tika Server is running; direct extraction may have formatting limits and might require further processing for readable or structured output.