with open(data_yaml, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f: content = yaml.safe_load(f)

import fitz # PyMuPDF doc = fitz.open("khmer_document.pdf") for page in doc: text = page.get_text() print(text) pdfplumber extracts text while preserving layout, good for Khmer.

pangocairo_context.update_layout(layout) pangocairo_context.show_layout(layout) surface.finish() For scanned Khmer PDFs, convert to images then use Tesseract with Khmer language pack.

Use weasyprint or xhtml2pdf with HTML/CSS that already handles Khmer shaping. 2. Extracting Text from Khmer PDFs Using PyMuPDF (fitz) PyMuPDF handles Khmer Unicode extraction well.

c.save() data = "ចំណងជើង": "របាយការណ៍ប្រចាំឆ្នាំ", "កាលបរិច្ឆេទ": "២០២៥-០៣-០១"