PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

3.9 Python Binding
Installing the TET Edition for Python. The Python extension mechanism works by
loading shared libraries at runtime. For the TET binding to work, the Python interpreter
must have access to the TET Python wrapper which will be searched in the directories
listed in the PYTHONPATH environment variable. The name of Python wrapper depends
on the platform:
> Unix: tetlib_py.so
> Mac OS X: tetlib_py.dylib
> Windows: tetlib_py.pyd
Error Handling in Python. The Python binding installs a special error handler which
translates TET errors to native Python exceptions. The Python exceptions can be dealt
with by the usual try/catch technique:
try:
...some TET instructions...
except TETException:
print 'TET Exception caught!'
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