python/python-pdfminer: Added (PDF parser and analyzer).

Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>

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+PDFMiner is a tool for extracting information from PDF documents. Unlike
+other PDF-related tools, it focuses entirely on getting and analyzing
+text data. PDFMiner allows one to obtain the exact location of text in a
+page, as well as other information such as fonts or lines. It includes a
+PDF converter that can transform PDF files into other text formats (such
+as HTML). It has an extensible PDF parser that can be used for other
+purposes than text analysis.
+
+PDFMiner comes with two handy tools: pdf2txt.py and dumppdf.py.
+
+pdf2txt.py
+
+pdf2txt.py extracts text contents from a PDF file.  It cannot recognize 
+text drawn as images.  It also extracts locations, font names/sizes, 
+writing direction.  It requires a password for password protected PDF 
+documents.  You cannot extract any text from a PDF document which does 
+not have extraction permission.
+
+dumppdf.py
+
+dumppdf.py dumps the internal contents of a PDF file in pseudo-XML
+format. This program is primarily for debugging purposes, but it's also
+possible to extract some meaningful contents (e.g. images).