Reading from pdf file to text yields no results

Question

So I'm trying something very simple: I just want to read text from a pdf file in to a variable - that's it. This is what I'm getting:

Does anyone know a reliable way to just read pdf in to a text file?

Without further knowledge of the libraries you're using: Does your pdf contain text? Sometimes it's just images that look like text — lucidbrot, Sep 01 '20 at 18:10
"So I'm trying something very simple" - that's not simple at all, and without a PDF file example, all anybody can do is guess. Please don't be that person that makes people guess - post a PDF sample file. — David van Driessche, Sep 01 '20 at 20:59

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 01 '20 at 18:21

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Try the following library - pdfplumber:

import pdfplumber
pdf_file = pdfplumber.open('anyfile.pdf')
page = pdf_file.pages[0]
text = page.extract_text()
print(text)
pdf_file.close()

I haven't used PyPDF2 before but pdfplumber seems to work well for me.

answered Sep 01 '20 at 18:21

Arty

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Can you share the PDF file? Or at least 1 page of the file? – Arty Sep 01 '20 at 18:29

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