PDFMiner Extract Text From PDF File Using Python

In this tutorial, we will use Python and pdfminer library to extract or read text content from a PDF file. The full source code of the PDFMiner Extract Text example is given below.

PDFMiner Extract Text Source Code

Install PDFMiner

pip install pdfminer

code.py

import io 
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter 
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter 
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager 
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage 


def extract_text_by_page(pdf_path): 

    with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as fh: 
        
        for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fh, 
                                    caching=True, 
                                    check_extractable=True): 
            
            resource_manager = PDFResourceManager() 
            fake_file_handle = io.StringIO() 
            
            converter = TextConverter(resource_manager, 
                                    fake_file_handle) 
            
            page_interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(resource_manager, 
                                                converter) 
            
            page_interpreter.process_page(page) 
            text = fake_file_handle.getvalue() 
            
            yield text 
            
            # close open handles 
            converter.close() 
            fake_file_handle.close() 
            
def extract_text(pdf_path): 
    for page in extract_text_by_page(pdf_path): 
        print(page) 
        print() 
        
# Driver code 
if __name__ == '__main__': 
    print(extract_text('###pathofpdffile###'))

Run PDFMiner Extract Text Project

python code.py

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