How to Extract Hyperlinks from a PDF
Learn to develop a PDF link extractor tool while benefiting from the PikePdf Python library.
Introduction
By definition, a hyperlink, or more simply a link, is a reference to information that the user can access by clicking or tapping.
Hyperlinks help in organizing a document and enhancing its content with outside resources.
Adding hyperlinks to a PDF document gives its readers instant access to data that is either located within the same document, in another document, or a website without the need to duplicate such data.
Quickly scanning a PDF document and grabbing the links included within it is a common user query, mainly used to check the status of these links and to see whether they are working, broken, or malformed.