Using python PyMuPDF (fitz) to iterate through lines and check length of it and add a period if it meets the criteria

Question

Trying to iterate through each line of the page from the PyMuPDF library to check the length of the sentence, if it is less than 10 words then I would like to add a full stop. Psuedo code would be:

#loop through the lines of the PDF
#check number of words in line
#if line has less than 10 words 
#add period

Real code below:

import fitz
myfile = "my.pdf"
doc  =fitz.open(myfile)
page=doc[0]
for page in doc:
    text = page.getText("text")
    print(text)

when I add another for loop e.g for line in page:

I get an error saying page is not iterable. Is there any other way I can do this?

Thanks

https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-to-extract-text-in-natural-reading-order — Vishal Singh, Aug 28 '20 at 04:38

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 02 '21 at 16:03

in order to iterate over page lines you can use getDisplayList:

page_display = page.getDisplayList()
dictionary_elements = page_display.getTextPage().extractDICT()
for block in dictionary_elements['blocks']:
    for line in block['lines']:
        line_text = ''
        for span in line['spans']:
             line_text += ' ' + span['text]
        print(l

Using python PyMuPDF (fitz) to iterate through lines and check length of it and add a period if it meets the criteria

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