How can I covert Pdf to Text file in Unicode (utf-8) format using PyPdf in Python?
# finally, write "output" to document-output.pdf
outputStream = file(("document-output.txt", "wb")
output.write(outputStream)
outputStream.close()
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possible duplicate of [Python module for converting PDF to text](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25665/python-module-for-converting-pdf-to-text) – dyoo Jan 26 '15 at 02:27
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I used PyPDF2 .It is working for normal text. but not for unicode . – Nurul Akter Towhid Oct 11 '16 at 01:22
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You can use PyPDF2. I use pdfminer which helps me save the file in Unicode (UTF-8). Please refer to the following code.
def convert_pdf_to_txt(self):
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
retstr = StringIO()
codec = 'utf-8'
laparams = LAParams()
device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
fp = open(self.file_path, 'rb')
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
pagenos = set()
for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp, pagenos, check_extractable=True):
interpreter.process_page(page)
fp.close()
device.close()
str = retstr.getvalue()
retstr.close()
return str
