Extracting Text from PDFs
Text extraction is tricky
Section titled “Text extraction is tricky”Some PDFs contain real text.
Others are scans (images), which require OCR.
Extract with pypdf
Section titled “Extract with pypdf”from pypdf import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("input.pdf")
text_parts = []
for page in reader.pages:
text_parts.append(page.extract_text() or "")
text = "\n".join(text_parts)
print(text[:1000])When you need OCR
Section titled “When you need OCR”If extract_text() returns empty or garbage:
- use OCR tools (like Tesseract)
- or use specialized PDF extractors
🧪 Try It Yourself
Section titled “🧪 Try It Yourself”Exercise 1 – List Files with os.listdir
Section titled “Exercise 1 – List Files with os.listdir”Exercise 2 – Join Paths with os.path.join
Section titled “Exercise 2 – Join Paths with os.path.join”Exercise 3 – Write and Read a File
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