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I have tried PyPDF2 to extract and parse text from PDF using following code segment;

import PyPDF2
import re

pdfFileObj = open('test.pdf', 'rb')
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)

rawText = pdfReader.getPage().extractText()
extractedText = re.split('\n|\t', rawText)
print("Extracted Text: " + str(extractedText) + "\n")

Case 1: When I try to parse pdf text, I failed to parse them as exactly as they appear in pdf. For example,

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In this case, line break or new line can't be found in both rawText or extractedText and results like below-

    input field, your old automation script will try to submit a form with missing data unless you update it.Another common case is asserting that a specific error message appeared and then updating the error message, which will also break the script.

Case 2: And for following case,

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It gives result as-

2B. Community Living5710509-112C. Lifelong Learning69116310-122D. Employment5710509-11

which is more difficult to parse and differentiate between these individual scores. Is it possible to parse perfectly these scenario with PyPDF2 or any other Python library?

Nawshad Rehan Rasha
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    Check this answer, it may be related: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11017379/pypdf-ignores-newlines-in-pdf-file – Isma Sep 24 '17 at 10:58
  • This helps every visible separated strings or lines to parse in different new lines using `extractText(Tj_sep="\n")` but yet have to achieve 'Line Spacing' between each paragraph. Thanks btw @Isma – Nawshad Rehan Rasha Sep 25 '17 at 06:47

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