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Welcome to the Spark PDF

The project provides a custom data source for the Apache Spark that allows you to read PDF files into the Spark DataFrame.

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👉 Works on Databricks now. See the Databricks example. Solved issue with read from the volume (Unity Catalog).

Key features:

• Read PDF documents to the Spark DataFrame
• Support efficient read PDF files lazy per page
• Support big files, up to 10k pages
• Support scanned PDF files (call OCR for text recognition from the images)
• No need to install Tesseract OCR, it's included in the package
• 👉 Compatible with ScaleDP, an Open-Source Library for Processing Documents using AI/ML in Apache Spark.
• Works with Spark Connect

Requirements

• Java 8, 11, 17
• Apache Spark 3.3.2, 3.4.1, 3.5.0, 4.0.0
• Ghostscript 9.50 or later (only for the GhostScript reader)

Spark 4.0.0 is supported in the version 0.1.11 and later (need Java 17 and Scala 2.13).

Installation

Binary package is available in the Maven Central Repository.

• Spark 3.5.*: com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark35_2.12:0.1.17
• Spark 3.4.*: com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark34_2.12:0.1.11 (issue with publishing fresh version)
• Spark 3.3.*: com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark33_2.12:0.1.17
• Spark 4.0.*: com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark40_2.13:0.1.17

Options for the data source:

• imageType: Oputput image type. Can be: "BINARY", "GREY", "RGB". Default: "RGB".
• resolution: Resolution for rendering PDF page to the image. Default: "300" dpi.
• pagePerPartition: Number pages per partition in Spark DataFrame. Default: "5".
• reader: Supports: pdfBox - based on PdfBox java lib, gs - based on GhostScript (need installation GhostScipt to the system)
• ocrConfig: Tesseract OCR configuration. Default: "psm=3". For more information see Tesseract OCR Params
• password: Password for protected PDF files

Output Columns in the DataFrame:

The DataFrame contains the following columns:

• path: path to the file
• page_number: page number of the document
• text: extracted text from the text layer of the PDF page
• image: image representation of the page
• document: the OCR-extracted text from the rendered image (calls Tesseract OCR)
• partition_number: partition number

Output Schema:

root
|-- path: string (nullable = true)
|-- filename: string (nullable = true)
|-- page_number: integer (nullable = true)
|-- partition_number: integer (nullable = true)
|-- text: string (nullable = true)
|-- image: struct (nullable = true)
| |-- path: string (nullable = true)
| |-- resolution: integer (nullable = true)
| |-- data: binary (nullable = true)
| |-- imageType: string (nullable = true)
| |-- exception: string (nullable = true)
| |-- height: integer (nullable = true)
| |-- width: integer (nullable = true)
|-- document: struct (nullable = true)
| |-- path: string (nullable = true)
| |-- text: string (nullable = true)
| |-- outputType: string (nullable = true)
| |-- bBoxes: array (nullable = true)
| | |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
| | | |-- text: string (nullable = true)
| | | |-- score: float (nullable = true)
| | | |-- x: integer (nullable = true)
| | | |-- y: integer (nullable = true)
| | | |-- width: integer (nullable = true)
| | | |-- height: integer (nullable = true)
| |-- exception: string (nullable = true)

Example of usage

Scala

importorg.apache.spark.sql.SparkSessionvalspark=SparkSession.builder()
.appName("Spark PDF Example")
.master("local[*]")
.config("spark.jars.packages", "com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark35_2.12:0.1.16")
.getOrCreate()
valdf= spark.read.format("pdf")
.option("imageType", "BINARY")
.option("resolution", "200")
.option("pagePerPartition", "2")
.option("reader", "pdfBox")
.option("ocrConfig", "psm=11")
.option("password", "pdf_password")
.load("path to the pdf file(s)")
df.select("path", "document").show()

Python

frompyspark.sqlimportSparkSessionspark=SparkSession.builder \
.master("local[*]") \
.appName("SparkPdf") \
.config("spark.jars.packages", "com.stabrise:spark-pdf-spark35_2.12:0.1.16") \
.getOrCreate()
df=spark.read.format("pdf") \
.option("imageType", "BINARY") \
.option("resolution", "200") \
.option("pagePerPartition", "2") \
.option("reader", "pdfBox") \
.option("ocrConfig", "psm=11") \
.option("password", "pdf_password") \
.load("path to the pdf file(s)")
df.select("path", "document").show()

Disclaimer

This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the Apache Software Foundation or Apache Spark.