PyPDFDirectoryLoader

class langchain_community.document_loaders.pdf.PyPDFDirectoryLoader(path: str | Path, glob: str = '**/[!.]*.pdf', silent_errors: bool = False, load_hidden: bool = False, recursive: bool = False, extract_images: bool = False)

Load a directory with PDF files using pypdf and chunks at character level.

Loader also stores page numbers in metadata.

Methods

__init__(path[, glob, silent_errors, ...])
alazy_load()	A lazy loader for Documents.
aload()	Load data into Document objects.
lazy_load()	A lazy loader for Documents.
load()	Load data into Document objects.
load_and_split([text_splitter])	Load Documents and split into chunks.

Parameters:

• path (str | Path) –

• glob (str) –

• silent_errors (bool) –

• load_hidden (bool) –

• recursive (bool) –

• extract_images (bool) –

__init__(path: str | Path, glob: str = '**/[!.]*.pdf', silent_errors: bool = False, load_hidden: bool = False, recursive: bool = False, extract_images: bool = False)

Parameters:

• path (str | Path) –

• glob (str) –

• silent_errors (bool) –

• load_hidden (bool) –

• recursive (bool) –

• extract_images (bool) –

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]

A lazy loader for Documents.

Return type:

Iterator[Document]

load() → List[Document]

Load data into Document objects.

Return type:

List[Document]

load_and_split(text_splitter: TextSplitter | None = 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 PyPDFDirectoryLoader

• PyPDFDirectoryLoader