I am trying to read this persian pdf but the result is not decoded well. I also tried utf-16 or utf-32, but no readable results was produced. I want to get the persian dates inside the table. Other libraries were tried but no good text was extracted. After one year of asking this question, still I did not find any good solution for reading Persian PDF files.
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
urlpdf="https://www.codal.ir/Reports/DownloadFile.aspx?id=LG5QhAhMbfl2DrQQQaQQQ%2bkR9nMQ%3d%3d"
response = requests.get(urlpdf, verify=False, timeout=5)
with io.BytesIO(response.content) as f:
#print(response.content)
pdf = PdfFileReader(f)
#print(pdf)
information = pdf.getDocumentInfo()
number_of_pages = pdf.getNumPages()
txt = f"""
Author: {information.author}
Creator: {information.creator}
Producer: {information.producer}
Subject: {information.subject}
Title: {information.title}
Number of pages: {number_of_pages}
"""
# Here the metadata of your pdf
print(txt)
# numpage for the number page
numpage=0
page = pdf.getPage(numpage)
page_content = page.extractText()+"\n"
# print the content in the page 20
g=open("extract.txt",'w',encoding='UTF-8',)
g.write(page_content)
g.close
print(page_content)
