How to extract text from rotated PDF without saving it from web response object using PyPDF2 or any other package?

Asked Jun 13 '21 at 05:13

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I want to extract text from this link. Here the pdf is rotated and I'm getting a blank response or empty string when i try to rotate it and extract and even if i simply try to extract text then also I'm getting blank response/ empty string. Please suggest what could be done so that i can extract the text without saving the file on my system.

import requests
import PyPDF2
from io import BytesIO

pdf_resp = requests.Session().get("https://www.mbmc.gov.in/master_c/download_file/63161")
pdf_file_obj = BytesIO(pdf_resp.content)
pdf_table_text = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_file_obj).getPage(0).rotateClockwise(90).extractText()

asked Jun 13 '21 at 05:13

techwreck

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You need to OCR it, I don't think PyPDF does that. I would try ABBYY + save as csv for this one. – pguardiario Jun 13 '21 at 05:50
@pguardiario is there a way through which we can do it without saving the file ? – techwreck Jun 13 '21 at 06:43
There might be an api for that, I'm not sure. – pguardiario Jun 13 '21 at 06:45
I got the answer, actually the pdf i was trying to parse was made of images and not text and that's why i was not able to do it.. I used camelot to do the job for me – techwreck Jun 24 '21 at 05:54
Yeah, sorry if I wasn't clear about what OCR means – pguardiario Jun 24 '21 at 06:10

How to extract text from rotated PDF without saving it from web response object using PyPDF2 or any other package?

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