converting-files.rst

Converting Files

Files to PDF

:ref:`Document types supported by PyMuPDF<HowToOpenAFile>` can easily be converted to |PDF| by using the :meth:`Document.convert_to_pdf` method. This method returns a buffer of data which can then be utilized by |PyMuPDF| to create a new |PDF|.

Example

import pymupdf

xps = pymupdf.open("input.xps")
pdfbytes = xps.convert_to_pdf()
pdf = pymupdf.open("pdf", pdfbytes)
pdf.save("output.pdf")

PDF to SVG

Technically, as SVG files cannot be multipage, we must export each page as an SVG.

To get an SVG representation of a page use the :meth:`Page.get_svg_image` method.

Example

import pymupdf

doc = pymupdf.open("input.pdf")
page = doc[0]

# Convert page to SVG
svg_content = page.get_svg_image()

# Save to file
with open("output.svg", "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
    f.write(svg_content)

doc.close()

PDF to Markdown

By utlilizing the :doc:`PyMuPDF4LLM API <pymupdf4llm/api>` we are able to convert PDF to a Markdown representation.

Example

import pymupdf4llm
import pathlib

md_text = pymupdf4llm.to_markdown("test.pdf")
print(md_text)

pathlib.Path("4llm-output.md").write_bytes(md_text.encode())

PDF to DOCX

Use the pdf2docx_ library which uses |PyMuPDF| to provide document conversion from |PDF| to DOCX format.

Example

from pdf2docx import Converter

pdf_file = 'input.pdf'
docx_file = 'output.docx'

# convert pdf to docx
cv = Converter(pdf_file)
cv.convert(docx_file) # all pages by default
cv.close()