# pip install khmernlp from khmernlp import word_tokenize
Note: Always verify the source of the PDF to ensure it doesn't contain malware, especially if it is a direct download link from an unverified website. python khmer pdf verified
Based on community testing (Cambodia Python User Group) and our own benchmarks, these are the libraries for working with Khmer PDFs in Python. # pip install khmernlp from khmernlp import word_tokenize
When mixing scripts, sometimes the "guess" for script direction fails. You can manually set the script by passing script="Khmr" to the text methods if needed. Chapter 3: Fonts - ReportLab Docs You can manually set the script by passing
sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr-khm # Linux # or download Khmer trained data for Windows/macOS
| Issue | Symptom | Solution | |-------|---------|----------| | Reversed order | Words appear backwards | Use pdfplumber with extract_text(layout=True) | | Missing subscript consonants | "ក្ត" becomes "កដ" | Ensure font supports coeng (U+17D2); re-extract with OCR | | Line break splitting | Words broken mid-character | Join hyphenated lines using Khmer syllable detection | | Wrong encoding | Mojibake like "សារ" | Re-extract using pypdf with strict=False |
from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text