pdftotext

import pdftotext import os # Create a dummy PDF file for demonstration dummy_pdf_content = b"%PDF-1.4\n1 0 obj<</Type/Catalog/Pages 2 0 R>>endobj 2 0 obj<</Type/Pages/Count 1/Kids[3 0 R]>>endobj 3 0 obj<</Type/Page/Parent 2 0 R/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Contents 4 0 R>>endobj 4 0 obj<</Length 44>>stream\nBT /F1 24 Tf 100 700 Td (Hello, pdftotext!) Tj ET\nendstream\nendobj\nxref\n0 5\n0000000000 65535 f\n0000000009 00000 n\n0000000055 00000 n\n0000000109 00000 n\n0000000216 00000 n\ntrailer<</Size 5/Root 1 0 R>>startxref 303\n%%EOF" with open("dummy.pdf", "wb") as f: f.write(dummy_pdf_content) # Load your PDF file try: with open("dummy.pdf", "rb") as f: pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f) # Get all text from the document (each element is a page) full_text = "\n\n".join(pdf) print("--- Full PDF Text ---") print(full_text) # Get text from a specific page (e.g., the first page) if len(pdf) > 0: first_page_text = pdf[0] print("\n--- First Page Text ---") print(first_page_text) else: print("\nNo pages found in PDF.") except pdftotext.Error as e: print(f"Error processing PDF: {e}. Make sure poppler-utils is installed.") finally: # Clean up the dummy file if os.path.exists("dummy.pdf"): os.remove("dummy.pdf")