langchain.document_loaders.pdf.PyPDFDirectoryLoader

class langchain.document_loaders.pdf.PyPDFDirectoryLoader(path: str, 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, ...])
lazy_load()	A lazy loader for Documents.
load()	Load data into Document objects.
load_and_split([text_splitter])	Load Documents and split into chunks.

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

lazy_load() → Iterator[Document]

A lazy loader for Documents.

load() → List[Document]

Load data into Document objects.

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

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

Parameters

text_splitter – TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.

Returns

List of Documents.