How can I read pdf in python?

Question

How can I read pdf in python? I know one way of converting it to text, but I want to read the content directly from pdf.

Can anyone explain which module in python is best for pdf extraction

Answer 1

You can USE PyPDF2 package

# install PyPDF2
pip install PyPDF2

Once you have it installed:

# importing all the required modules
import PyPDF2

# creating a pdf reader object
reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader('example.pdf')

# print the number of pages in pdf file
print(len(reader.pages))

# print the text of the first page
print(reader.pages[0].extract_text())

Follow the documentation.

Answer 2

You can use textract module in python

Textract

for install

pip install textract

for read pdf

import textract
text = textract.process('path/to/pdf/file', method='pdfminer')

For detail Textract