from top-left to bottom-right (ignored for XHTML, HTML and XML output). 2. Use the fitz module in CLI: python -m fitz gettext ..., which produces a text file where text has been re-arranged in layout-preserving save("marked-" + doc.name) This script uses Page.get_text("words") to look for a string, handed in via cli parameter. This method separates a page’s text into “words” using white spaces as delimiters. Further writing some of the most basic scripts. Admittedly, there is some functional overlap with the MuPDF CLI mutool. On the other hand, PDF embedded files are no longer supported by MuPDF, so PyMuPDF is offering