How to convert pdf to HTML using python pdfminer?

Question

Is there any code snippet that will work? I have tried this for converting pdf to html

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.converter import HTMLConverter, TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
import os
import contextlib 
import tempfile
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
laparams = LAParams()
converter = HTMLConverter if format == 'html' else TextConverter
out_file = "A:\folder"
in_file = "A:\folder\pyhtml.html"
pdf_filename = 'insurance.pdf'
device = converter(rsrcmgr, out_file, codec='utf-8', laparams=laparams)
PDFPage.get_pages(rsrcmgr, device, in_file, pagenos=[1], maxpages=1)

with contextlib.closing(tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(mode='r', suffix='.xml')) as xmlin:
    cmd = 'pdftohtml -xml -nodrm -zoom 1.5 -enc UTF-8 -noframes "%s" "%s"' % (
            pdf_filename, xmlin.name.rpartition('.')[0])
    os.system(cmd + " >/dev/null 2>&1")
    result = xmlin.read().decode('utf-8')

when i run the above code it gives me following erroe

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "a:\folder\new - Copy.py", line 14, in <module>
    device = converter(rsrcmgr, out_file, codec='utf-8', laparams=laparams)
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'

Answer 1

AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'write'

If there is attempt of .write that means you should provide write-able file-handle rather than str, you might use with open... which will take care of closing file for you as follow, replace

in_file = "A:\folder\pyhtml.html"
device = converter(rsrcmgr, out_file, codec='utf-8', laparams=laparams)

using

in_file = "A:\folder\pyhtml.html"
with open(in_file, "w") as out_file:
    device = converter(rsrcmgr, out_file, codec='utf-8', laparams=laparams)

If you want to know more about open read Built-in Functions docs