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# `langchain_community.document_loaders.pdf`.PDFMinerLoader

class langchain_community.document_loaders.pdf.PDFMinerLoader(file_path: str, *, headers: Optional[Dict] = None, extract_images: bool = False, concatenate_pages: bool = True)

  Load PDF files using PDFMiner.

  Initialize with file path.

  Parameters

    - extract_images (bool) – Whether to extract images from PDF.

    - concatenate_pages (bool) – If True, concatenate all PDF pages into one a single document. Otherwise, return one document per page.

    - file_path (str) –

    - headers (Optional[Dict]) –

  Attributes

  `source` |

  Methods

  `__init__`(file_path, *[, headers, ...]) | Initialize with file path.
  `alazy_load`() | A lazy loader for Documents.
  `aload`() | Load data into Document objects.
  `lazy_load`() | Lazily load documents.
  `load`() | Load data into Document objects.
  `load_and_split`([text_splitter]) | Load Documents and split into chunks.

  __init__(file_path: str, *, headers: Optional[Dict] = None, extract_images: bool = False, concatenate_pages: bool = True) → None

    Initialize with file path.

    Parameters

      - extract_images (bool) – Whether to extract images from PDF.

      - concatenate_pages (bool) – If True, concatenate all PDF pages into one a single document. Otherwise, return one document per page.

      - file_path (str) –

      - headers (Optional[Dict]) –

    Return type

      None

  async alazy_load() → AsyncIterator[Document]

    A lazy loader for Documents.

    Return type

      AsyncIterator[Document]

  async aload() → List[Document]

    Load data into Document objects.

    Return type

      List[Document]

  lazy_load() → Iterator[Document]

    Lazily load documents.

    Return type

      Iterator[Document]

  load() → List[Document]

    Load data into Document objects.

    Return type

      List[Document]

  load_and_split(text_splitter: Optional[TextSplitter] = None) → List[Document]

    Load Documents and split into chunks. Chunks are returned as Documents.

    Do not override this method. It should be considered to be deprecated!

    Parameters

      text_splitter (Optional[TextSplitter]) – TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.

    Returns

      List of Documents.

    Return type

      List[Document]

# Examples using PDFMinerLoader

- PDF