PyPDFDirectoryLoader

This loader loads all PDF files from a specific directory.

Overview

Integration details

Class	Package	Local	Serializable	JS support
PyPDFDirectoryLoader	langchain-community	✅	❌	❌

Loader features

Source	Document Lazy Loading	Native Async Support
PyPDFDirectoryLoader	✅	❌

Setup

Credentials

No credentials are needed for this loader.

To enable automated tracing of your model calls, set your LangSmith API key:

os.environ["LANGSMITH_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass("Enter your LangSmith API key: ")
os.environ["LANGSMITH_TRACING"] = "true"

Installation

Install langchain-community.

pip install -qU langchain-community pypdf pillow

Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

Initialization

Now we can instantiate our model object and load documents:

from langchain_community.document_loaders import PyPDFDirectoryLoader

directory_path = (
    "../../docs/integrations/document_loaders/example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf"
)
loader = PyPDFDirectoryLoader("example_data/")

Load

docs = loader.load()
docs[0]

Document(metadata={'producer': 'pdfTeX-1.40.21', 'creator': 'LaTeX with hyperref', 'creationdate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'author': '', 'keywords': '', 'moddate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'ptex.fullbanner': 'This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020) kpathsea version 6.3.2', 'subject': '', 'title': '', 'trapped': '/False', 'source': 'example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'total_pages': 16, 'page': 0, 'page_label': '1'}, page_content='LayoutParser: A Unified Toolkit for Deep\nLearning Based Document Image Analysis\nZejiang Shen1 (\x00 ), Ruochen Zhang2, Melissa Dell3, Benjamin Charles Germain\nLee4, Jacob Carlson3, and Weining Li5\n1 Allen Institute for AI\[e-mail]\n2 Brown University\nruochen [e-mail]\n3 Harvard University\n{melissadell,jacob carlson}@fas.harvard.edu\n4 University of Washington\[e-mail]\n5 University of Waterloo\[e-mail]\nAbstract. Recent advances in document image analysis (DIA) have been\nprimarily driven by the application of neural networks. Ideally, research\noutcomes could be easily deployed in production and extended for further\ninvestigation. However, various factors like loosely organized codebases\nand sophisticated model configurations complicate the easy reuse of im-\nportant innovations by a wide audience. Though there have been on-going\nefforts to improve reusability and simplify deep learning (DL) model\ndevelopment in disciplines like natural language processing and computer\nvision, none of them are optimized for challenges in the domain of DIA.\nThis represents a major gap in the existing toolkit, as DIA is central to\nacademic research across a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences\nand humanities. This paper introduces LayoutParser, an open-source\nlibrary for streamlining the usage of DL in DIA research and applica-\ntions. The core LayoutParser library comes with a set of simple and\nintuitive interfaces for applying and customizing DL models for layout de-\ntection, character recognition, and many other document processing tasks.\nTo promote extensibility, LayoutParser also incorporates a community\nplatform for sharing both pre-trained models and full document digiti-\nzation pipelines. We demonstrate that LayoutParser is helpful for both\nlightweight and large-scale digitization pipelines in real-word use cases.\nThe library is publicly available at https://layout-parser.github.io.\nKeywords: Document Image Analysis · Deep Learning · Layout Analysis\n· Character Recognition · Open Source library · Toolkit.\n1 Introduction\nDeep Learning(DL)-based approaches are the state-of-the-art for a wide range of\ndocument image analysis (DIA) tasks including document image classification [11,\narXiv:2103.15348v2  [cs.CV]  21 Jun 2021')

print(docs[0].metadata)

{'producer': 'pdfTeX-1.40.21', 'creator': 'LaTeX with hyperref', 'creationdate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'author': '', 'keywords': '', 'moddate': '2021-06-22T01:27:10+00:00', 'ptex.fullbanner': 'This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020) kpathsea version 6.3.2', 'subject': '', 'title': '', 'trapped': '/False', 'source': 'example_data/layout-parser-paper.pdf', 'total_pages': 16, 'page': 0, 'page_label': '1'}

Lazy Load

page = []
for doc in loader.lazy_load():
    page.append(doc)
    if len(page) >= 10:
        # do some paged operation, e.g.
        # index.upsert(page)

        page = []

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API reference

For detailed documentation of all PyPDFDirectoryLoader features and configurations head to the API reference: python.langchain.com/api_reference/community/document_loaders/langchain_community.document_loaders.pdf.PyPDFDirectoryLoader.html

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