#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
@package eWRT.input.conv.pdf
converts PDF documents into text
"""
# (C)opyrights 2009-2012 by Albert Weichselbraun <albert@weichselbraun.net>
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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from eWRT.config import CMD_CONV
from eWRT.util.execute import pipe_content
[docs]class HtmlToText(object):
""" converts HTML into text
requires a converter
"""
@staticmethod
[docs] def getText(pdf_content):
""" @param[in] pdf_content the content of the html page to convert
@param[in] encoding the document encoding
@returns the text representation of the Web page
"""
_, text = pipe_content( CMD_CONV['pdf'], pdf_content )
return text