Extract Text from any PDF File in Python 3.10 Tutorial

Today we will be learning how we can extract the text from PDF files in Python 3.10, so that we can later process that text in any way we please.
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[@tobiwie]

In some of the latest updates to PyPDF2 the class "PdfFileReader" got replaced with "PdfReader". Code still works fine with "PdfReader". :)

[@vitaliibaglaiev4147]

Just amazing explanation, short and sweet!

[@akashnath7999]

It's so helpful...loved it ❤

[@Indently]

Glad it helped! :)

[@user-og3ph3ss2n]

helped me a lot. Thanks

[@Mike_elGreco]

It worked! Thank you !!

[@mehdismaeili3743]

great as always.

[@boukefmohamed3191]

Excellent

[@vishnumuralidhar5659]

Thanks for the awesome tutorial. Please do the video for two sided pdfs. Which wasnt there on youtube🙃

[@mohammedasimsameer1220]

Thank you bro

[@frapsg2]

Awesome, so helpful! That's much simpler and ready-to-use compared to all others approaches found online. Is there a way to export the extracted text to a csv or xlsx file?

[@Miyazaki97]

Thank you for the awesome tutorial. I have a some question about extracting articles. I hope you can help me. While extracting articles and reports there are many references and table legends, titles which is not required. Would it be possible to remove all those references and table contents including legends and titles when extracting the pdf file?

[@davet4335]

The code did not work for me on a Windows 11 PC. I kept having ChatGPT analyze the code and error messages and after many tires it fixed it:
import os
import PyPDF2
import re
import math
def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_file: str) -> [str]:
# Open the PDF file of your choice
with open(pdf_file, 'rb') as pdf:
reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(pdf)
pdf_text = []
for page in reader.pages:
content = page.extract_text()
pdf_text.append(content)
return pdf_text
def main():
extracted_text = extract_text_from_pdf('sample.pdf')
for text in extracted_text:
print(text)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()

[@Absolute_gamerz]

Thanks !

[@milans2373]

Thank you so fucking much i got crazy over this

[@valmirrastelyjunior9400]

Great

[@rs-nm7hp]

U r awesome 👏

[@Indently]

Thanks! :)

[@zainsaqib3702]

I keep on getting Syntax Error: unmatched ')' on line 4 I'm running python 3.9 could that be the case?

[@jvwee]

I am pretty sure there are over a thousand isntances of the word "coffee" in the pdf. However, this seems to have only counted the number of pages that the word appeared.

[@atharkhalid3275]

what if we want to extract text for any particular page

[@gvenagas]

I found that by opening a pdf file with Mozilla Firefox and inspecting it with the developer tools you can collect its text (with the help of JavaScript) after the web browser has converted it to HTML and maybe save it for further processing with someone programming language.

[@kevinmakumbe]

Nice tutorial, how can i get the cordinates of the text in my pdf file?

[@albeeshi]

How to extract data from more than one PDF file and put it in a table

[@abigailmapuladikobo9941]

Got an answer?

[@Sathishedutech]

Hi sir..is it Work on Local Language Like Telugu

[@rishikeshchava6895]

Hey , I have some 600 files which have large volume of data, text extraction using pypdf2 is taking a lot of time , is there any other way to do this ?

[@louis19449]

how do you add the pdf file to the project?

[@MedoHamdani]

Will it work on Arabic language and will it be able to extract hand written manuscript?

[@MedoHamdani]

So this is not an OCR

[@raniarasmy6489]

please the resolution of your screen is not clear

[@Indently]

Just change the resolution on TH-cam from 144p to 720p

[@Baka_Oppai]

no idea how this is setup kina pointless where is pypdf do i get it from inside my bum bum? and what is this program?