I'm uploading multiple files to flask using a form, I'm getting the file objects in the flask backend without a problem but the issue is I want to read the PDF files to extract text from them. I can't do it on the file objects I received from the form, another method I thought of was saving the file in the local storage then read them again when I did that using file.save(path, filename) it created an empty text file with the name - filename.pdf
app=Flask(__name__)
@app.route('/')
def index():
return '''
<form method='POST' action='/saveData'>
<input type='file' name='testReport'>
<input type='submit'>
</form>
'''
@app.route('/saveData', methods=['POST'])
def saveData():
if 'testReport' in request.files:
testReport= request.files['testReport']
#This isn't working, a text file is saved with the same name ,ending in pdf
testReport.save(os.path.join(app.config['UPLOAD_FOLDER'], testReport.filename))
return f'<h1>File saved {testReport.filename}</h1>'
else:
return 'Not done'
How do we operate on PDF files after uploading them to flask ?
