For the PDF you have shared, you can use the following code to extract the text outside the tables
import pdfplumber
def not_within_bboxes(obj):
"""Check if the object is in any of the table's bbox."""
def obj_in_bbox(_bbox):
"""See https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber/blob/stable/pdfplumber/table.py#L404"""
v_mid = (obj["top"] + obj["bottom"]) / 2
h_mid = (obj["x0"] + obj["x1"]) / 2
x0, top, x1, bottom = _bbox
return (h_mid >= x0) and (h_mid < x1) and (v_mid >= top) and (v_mid < bottom)
return not any(obj_in_bbox(__bbox) for __bbox in bboxes)
with pdfplumber.open("file.pdf") as pdf:
for page in pdf.pages:
print("\n\n\n\n\nAll text:")
print(page.extract_text())
# Get the bounding boxes of the tables on the page.
bboxes = [
table.bbox
for table in page.find_tables(
table_settings={
"vertical_strategy": "explicit",
"horizontal_strategy": "explicit",
"explicit_vertical_lines": page.curves + page.edges,
"explicit_horizontal_lines": page.curves + page.edges,
}
)
]
print("\n\n\n\n\nText outside the tables:")
print(page.filter(not_within_bboxes).extract_text())
I am using the .filter()
method provided by pdfplumber
to drop any objects that fall inside the bounding box of any of the tables (in not_within_bboxes(...)
) and creating a filtered version of the page which will only contain those objects that fall outside any of the tables.