Pdf to document type using python

Pdf to document type using python 

Here is a step-by-step guide on how to convert a PDF file to a text document using Python and the PyPDF2 library:

Install the PyPDF2 library by running pip install pypdf2 in your command line.

Create a new Python script and import the PyPDF2 library by adding the following line at the top of your script: import PyPDF2

Open the PDF file using the open() function. You will need to specify the file path and the mode "rb" (read binary) as an argument. Here's an example of how to do this:

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with open("example.pdf", "rb") as file:

    pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file)

Iterate over each page of the PDF using a for loop and the numPages attribute of the PdfFileReader object. Extract the text from each page using the getPage() method and the extractText() method. Here's an example of how to do this:

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for page in range(pdf.numPages):

        text = pdf.getPage(page).extractText()

Create a new text file using the open() function and the mode "a" (append) as an argument. Write the extracted text to the text file using the write() method. Here's an example of how to do this:

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with open("example.txt", "a") as text_file:

            text_file.write(text)

Finally, run the script. The script will open the specified PDF file, read each page, extract the text, and write the text to a new text file with the same name in the same directory.

Note that, the above code snippet is just an example and you can use different libraries for converting pdfs to different types of documents, like doc, docx, xls, etc.

You can use the PyPDF2 library in Python to convert a PDF file to a text document. Here is an example of how to do this:

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import PyPDF2

# Open the PDF file

with open("example.pdf", "rb") as file:

    pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file)

    

    # Iterate over each page of the PDF

    for page in range(pdf.numPages):

        text = pdf.getPage(page).extractText()

        

        # Write the text to a new file

        with open("example.txt", "a") as text_file:

            text_file.write(text)

This code will open a PDF file called "example.pdf", read each page, and extract the text. Then it will write the text to a new file called "example.txt" in the same directory.

You can also use other libraries like pdfminer, pdfquery, tika and many more to convert pdf to other document types.