1. Install it using pip.

pip install multilingual-pdf2text

The library uses Tesseract which can be installed by following instructions:

Tesseract Installation

2. Use it in your code

from multilingual_pdf2text.pdf2text import PDF2Text
from multilingual_pdf2text.models.document_model.document import Document
import logging
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

def main():
    ## create document for extraction with configurations
    pdf_document = Document(
        document_path='/Users/shahrukh/Desktop/multilingual-pdf2text/example/example.pdf',
        language='spa'
        )
    pdf2text = PDF2Text(document=pdf_document)
    content = pdf2text.extract()
    print(content)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

Tesseract supports the following languages:
Code Language

• afr Afrikaans
• amh Amharic
• ara Arabic
• asm Assamese
• aze Azerbaijani
• aze_cyrl Azerbaijani - Cyrillic aze_
• bel Belarusian
• ben Bengali
• bod Tibetan
• bos Bosnian
• bul Bulgarian
• cat Catalan; Valencian
• ceb Cebuano
• ces Czech
• chi_sim Chinese - Simplified chi_
• chi_tra Chinese - Traditional chi_
• chr Cherokee
• cym Welsh
• dan Danish
• deu German
• dzo Dzongkha
• ell Greek, Modern (1453-)
• eng English
• enm English, Middle (1100-1500)
• epo Esperanto
• est Estonian
• eus Basque
• fas Persian
• fin Finnish
• fra French
• frk German Fraktur
• frm French, Middle (ca. 1400-1600)
• gle Irish
• glg Galician
• grc Greek, Ancient (-1453)
• guj Gujarati
• hat Haitian; Haitian Creole
• heb Hebrew
• hin Hindi
• hrv Croatian
• hun Hungarian
• iku Inuktitut
• ind Indonesian
• isl Icelandic
• ita Italian
• ita_old Italian - Old ita_
• jav Javanese
• jpn Japanese
• kan Kannada
• kat Georgian
• kat_old Georgian - Old kat_
• kaz Kazakh
• khm Central Khmer
• kir Kirghiz; Kyrgyz
• kor Korean
• kur Kurdish
• lao Lao
• lat Latin
• lav Latvian
• lit Lithuanian
• mal Malayalam
• mar Marathi
• mkd Macedonian
• mlt Maltese
• msa Malay
• mya Burmese
• nep Nepali
• nld Dutch; Flemish
• nor Norwegian
• ori Oriya
• pan Panjabi; Punjabi
• pol Polish
• por Portuguese
• pus Pushto; Pashto
• ron Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan
• rus Russian
• san Sanskrit
• sin Sinhala; Sinhalese
• slk Slovak
• slv Slovenian
• spa Spanish; Castilian
• spa_old Spanish; Castilian - Old spa_
• sqi Albanian
• srp Serbian
• srp_latn Serbian - Latin srp_
• swa Swahili
• swe Swedish
• syr Syriac
• tam Tamil
• tel Telugu
• tgk Tajik
• tgl Tagalog
• tha Thai
• tir Tigrinya
• tur Turkish
• uig Uighur; Uyghur
• ukr Ukrainian
• urd Urdu
• uzb Uzbek
• uzb_cyrl Uzbek - Cyrillic uzb_
• vie Vietnamese
• yid Yiddish