How to Extract Text from PDF using Python

[Music] all right hello everyone and welcome to my channel and this tutorial will explore how to extract text from PDF files using python extracting text from PDF files is a very common task that's often performed when working with reports and research papers it's a tedious task if you do it manually for every file using the available software and online tools in this tutorial we'll explore how to extract text from PDF files using python with a few lines of code to continue following this tutorial we will need the ipdf2 python Library if you don't have it installed please open command prompt if you're using Windows and install it using pip it should only take a few seconds as you can see on my screen this library is already installed on my computer in order to extract text from a PDF file we will need some PDF file to work with here is the sample PDF file we will use in this tutorial as you can see it's a very simple PDF file with three pages where each page has some text specifically sample page 1 sample page 2 and Sample page 3. you can download this file using the link I provide below the video alternatively if you have any other PDF file that contains text feel free to use it and it should work with this code the PDF file should be located in the same folder as the main Pi file with our code now we have everything we need and can easily extract text from PDF using python let's start with importing the required dependency EDF file reader offers functions that help in reading and viewing the PDF files next let's define the path to the PDF file since the file is located in the same folder as our main.pi file with the code the path to the file is simply the file name next let's open the file in binary mode for reading next using PDF file reader we will read the PDF file the next step is to get the number of pages in The PDF file so we can iterate over them and extract text from every page next we will use a for Loop to iterate over each page number now we will read the given PDF file page extract text from the given PDF file page and print out the text note that here instead of printing out the text sometimes you might use a data structure such as and simply append the extracted text to a list and then print out the contents of the entire list alternatively if you want to save the text you can create an empty text file and write out text from every page of the PDF file as you go through them so now let's run the code and see what we get okay we see that we've successfully extracted text from each page of the PDF file we have sample page one sample page 2 and Sample page 3. note that sometimes the accuracy of the extractor may not be perfect for example for page 1 the text got extracted on the same line so sample page one however for page 2 and page 3 attacks got broken down into separate lines such as here sample page 2 and Sample page 3. this tutorial we explored how to extract text from PDF files using Python and ipdf2 Library feel free to leave comments below if you have any questions please like and share the video subscribe to the channel and stay tuned for more of my Python programming tutorials

Channel: Misha Sv

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Length: 8min 30sec (510 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 17 2022