#PYPDF2 EXTRACT TEXT MULTIPLE PAGES PDF#
I have seen some recipes on StackOverflow that use PyPDF2 to extract images, but the code examples seem to be pretty hit or miss Use PyPDF2 - extract text data from PDF file - Sou-Nan-De-Gesġ) Extracting text. It doesn't have built-in support for extracting images, unfortunately. PyPDF2 has limited support for extracting text from PDFs.
But in a real world PDF documents contain a lot of noises, IDs can be. The output with pdfminer looks much better than with PyPDF2 and we can easily extract needed data with regex or with split(). For example, in our case, it is 20 (see first line of output) print (pdfReader.numPages) numPages property gives the number of pages in the pdf file.
#PYPDF2 EXTRACT TEXT MULTIPLE PAGES HOW TO#
Once you have the image files, you can use the tesseract library to extract the text out of them: How to Extract Text from Images with Python.
The good news with PyPDF2 was that it was a breeze to install. ws.withdraw () ws.clipboard_clear () ws.clipboard_append (content) ws.update () ws.destroy () Here, ws is the master window Here is the code to copy text using Python Tkinter.