How to extract text from pdf in Python 3.7

PyPDF2 does not read whole pdf correctly. You must use this code.

    import pdftotext

    pdfFileObj = open("January2019.pdf", 'rb')


    pdf = pdftotext.PDF(pdfFileObj)

    # Iterate over all the pages
    for page in pdf:
        print(page)

import pdftables_api
import os

c = pdftables_api.Client('MY-API-KEY')

file_path = "C:\Users\MyName\Documents\PDFTablesCode\"

for file in os.listdir(file_path):
    if file.endswith(".pdf"):
        c.xlsx(os.path.join(file_path,file), file+'.xlsx')

Go to https://pdftables.com to get an API key.

CSV, format=csv

XML, format=xml

HTML, format=html

XLSX, format=xlsx-single, format=xlsx-multiple

I have tried many methods but failed, include PyPDF2 and Tika. I finally found the module pdfplumber that is work for me, you also can try it.

Hope this will be helpful to you.

import pdfplumber
pdf = pdfplumber.open('pdffile.pdf')
page = pdf.pages[0]
text = page.extract_text()
print(text)
pdf.close()

Try pdfreader. You can extract either plain text or decoded text containing “pdf markdown”:

from pdfreader import SimplePDFViewer, PageDoesNotExist

fd = open(you_pdf_file_name, "rb")
viewer = SimplePDFViewer(fd)

plain_text = ""
pdf_markdown = ""

try:
    while True:
        viewer.render()
        pdf_markdown += viewer.canvas.text_content
        plain_text += "".join(viewer.canvas.strings)
        viewer.next()
except PageDoesNotExist:
    pass

PyPDF2 is highly unreliable for extracting text from pdf . as pointed out here too.
it says :

While PyPDF2 has .extractText(), which can be used on its page objects
(not shown in this example), it does not work very well. Some PDFs
will return text and some will return an empty string. When you want
to extract text from a PDF, you should check out the PDFMiner project
instead. PDFMiner is much more robust and was specifically designed
for extracting text from PDFs.

1. You could instead install and use pdfminer using

   pip install pdfminer

2. or you can use another open source utility named pdftotext by xpdfreader. instructions to use the utility is given on the page.

you can download the command line tools from here
and could use the pdftotext.exe utility using subprocess .detailed explanation for using subprocess is given here

Here is an alternative solution in Windows 10, Python 3.8

Example test pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aUfQAlvq5hA9kz2c9CyJADiY3KpY3-Vn/view?usp=sharing

#pip install pdfminer.six
import io

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage


def convert_pdf_to_txt(path):
    '''Convert pdf content from a file path to text

    :path the file path
    '''
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    codec = 'utf-8'
    laparams = LAParams()

    with io.StringIO() as retstr:
        with TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec,
                           laparams=laparams) as device:
            with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
                interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
                password = ""
                maxpages = 0
                caching = True
                pagenos = set()

                for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp,
                                              pagenos,
                                              maxpages=maxpages,
                                              password=password,
                                              caching=caching,
                                              check_extractable=True):
                    interpreter.process_page(page)

                return retstr.getvalue()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print(convert_pdf_to_txt('C:\Path\To\Test_PDF.pdf'))

Try this:

in terminal execute command: pip install PyPDF2

import PyPDF2

reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader("mypdf.pdf")
for page in reader.pages:
    print(page.extract_text())

If you are looking for a maintained, bigger project, have a look at PyMuPDF. Install it with pip install pymupdf and use it like this:

import fitz

def get_text(filepath: str) -> str:
    with fitz.open(filepath) as doc:
        text = ""
        for page in doc:
            text += page.getText().strip()
        return text

I think this code will be exactly what you are looking for:

import requests, time, datetime, os, threading, sys, configparser
import glob
import pdfplumber

for filename in glob.glob("*.pdf"):
    pdf = pdfplumber.open(filename)
    OutputFile = filename.replace('.pdf','.txt')
    fx2=open(OutputFile, "a+")
    for i in range(0,10000,1):
        try:
            page = pdf.pages[i]
            text = page.extract_text()
            print(text)
            fx2.write(text)
        except Exception as e: 
            print(e)
    fx2.close()
    pdf.close()