How to extract pdf page text line by line?

[mikejokic]

I am trying to extract pdf text line by line.

I have tried

UMNwriteup.pdf

doc = fitz.open("UMNwriteup.pdf")
page =doc.load_page(0)

Option 1
page.get_text('text').split("\n")

but that results in some lines being broken up into chunks (because spacing between words in one sentence is too much and a new line character is inputted.

Option 2
page.get_text('blocks')

That is more towards what I'm looking for, but some chunks (multi-line sentences) are intelligently grouped together.

Option 3

dictionary_elements = page.get_text('dict')
for block in dictionary_elements['blocks']:
    line_text = ''
    for line in block['lines']:
        for span in line['spans']:
             line_text += ' ' + span['text']

This results in output similar to option 2.

So how do I extract text line by line, without any chunking / blocks behinds the scenes?

If I can stop putting new line characters between two words that are separated by blank spaces (even though on same bbox height), that should solve this for me.

Hi @JorjMcKie Thanks for any help.

[JorjMcKie]

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