Simple PDF text extraction
import pdftotext
# Load your PDF
with open("lorem_ipsum.pdf", "rb") as f:
pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)
# If it's password-protected
with open("secure.pdf", "rb") as f:
pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f, "secret")
# How many pages?
print(len(pdf))
# Iterate over all the pages
for page in pdf:
print(page)
# Read some individual pages
print(pdf[0])
print(pdf[1])
# Read all the text into one string
print("\n\n".join(pdf))Debian, Ubuntu, and friends:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config python-dev
Fedora, Red Hat, and friends:
sudo yum install gcc-c++ pkgconfig poppler-cpp-devel python-devel redhat-rpm-config
macOS:
brew install pkg-config poppler
pip install pdftotext