Extract Text from PDF with Python

[@TheBtrivedi]

Amazing. Clear explanation of what's being done. Subscribed.

[@MURALIKRISHNAhai]

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[@darrenu2939]

Nicely done!

[@abdullah07757]

Fun to watch hard to comprehend

[@shilpakale2699]

Very nicely explained, I would like to know if page in pdf has header or footer and extract Page No's which has header/footer. Can we have this scripted using pyPDF2?Please advise

[@cbao97]

Amazing tutorial. I noticed there is a /n at the end of each line. Is there anything we can do to detect the whole paragraph?

[@johnkhan174]

Hello, I found a small bug in the code. If 'Waldo' exists in two places on the same page (in different sentences, the second 'Waldo' is not found. Can you provide a fix? Thanks!

[@KyroAtelerix]

And if I only eant to extraxt some keywords across multiplepages in 100 pdfs what I might do for it? I dont want all the text, only few words

[@kingfunny4821]

How can take only highlight text in pdf

[@ajsunofficial6798]

In case of page extraction say we want to extract page 2 and page 5..do we use in getobj.pageS(2,5)

[@JM-fr9bc]

How about using a for loop to extract a text title to another for multiple pdfs?

[@ChartExplorers]

Hi Johan, good question. I'm not sure exactly how to do this. I'll see what I can figure out but I wont be able to get to it for a few days. Can you send me another message in a few days time and see what I have come up with? Thanks!

[@JM-fr9bc]

@@ChartExplorers Thanks so much for your response. Just to re-state, I'm trying to use a loop to extract a particular section, let's say called "lessons", from a file of PDFs. and output into an excel. Any help would be great! Thanks so much!

[@JM-fr9bc]

@@ChartExplorers Hi! Were you able to come up with anything? :)

[@KyroAtelerix]

@@ChartExplorers do you solved it?

[@saurabhverma2155]

Sir, can you guide me how to extract text (of specific coordinates) from pdf file ?

[@ChartExplorers]

Hmmmm, good question. I'm assuming by coordinates you mean on a specific page at a specific location (ex: page 2, 30 mm down and 20 mm right to 90 mm down to 50 mm right? Or something to that effect?

[@srikrithibharadwaj6779]

Well explained. Thank you so much.

[@yizzi25]

Does the code work if there are multiple keywords in the same sentence?

[@vrbaac1641]

hi, very nice video ^^... but will this procedure work if I need to extract certain text strings in PDFs generated from Autocad Drawings? thanks ^^

[@ChartExplorers]

Hi VR Bacc, good question. I'm assuming the text in the Autocad PDFs are "image" like which makes things trickier. Can you highlight the text on the PDF? If so, you should be able to grab the text using the methods described in this video. If not, then you will have to use something called pytesseract to get text from the pdf. Let me know if this is the case for you and I can try to make a video on how to do this.

[@vrbaac1641]

hi @@ChartExplorers thank you for your reply.. Actually I have tried some of the python procedures such as PyPDF2, 4 and others... but with no success... the script runs but there is no output... yes the text in the PDF from AutoCAD drawings are selectable regardless of the orientation... so I am thinking somehow there should be a way to get those texts but I am not sure how... We will greatly appreciate if you could make a tutorial about this ^^... thank you so much...

[@ChartExplorers]

I'll start working on a video. Would you feel comfortable sending me the pdf. If so, I'll send you my email and I'll practice on your PDF to everything works for your situation. If not, that's perfectly fine I have a few other examples I can use.

[@vrbaac1641]

@@ChartExplorers oh!!!! thank you so much... i think I can send you a portion of the drawing, specifically the title block area. The text on the pdf is selectable... I can send the file to you by email ^^...

[@ChartExplorers]

@VR Baac, awesome. This way I can make sure it works in your specific situation. My email is [e-mail]

[@cars_worldcw488]

Please how to avoid the line break problem for some paragraphs in your result ??

[@adamrassi3516]

Hey, I'm new to this and using Thonny to edit and run code. When I get to exacting the text, a notepad file is opened but the text from the PDF is not written there. Any clue why this would happen.

[@Atharv-wm3vr]

how you installed pypdf, when i wrote it it says not found

[@bryanl6300]

New to Python coding. Sorry for the stupid questions: I have ran the following CMD: pip install PyPDF2 Collecting PyPDF2 Downloading pypdf2-3.0.1-py3-none-any.whl (232 kB) ---------------------------------------- 232.6/232.6 kB 4.8 MB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing collected packages: PyPDF2 Successfully installed PyPDF2-3.0.1 IDLE throws this error: from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'PyPDF2' What am I missing???

[@lasnroo]

Hi duddy, is possible I read line by line? if yes, how I can?

[@TheKylesauce]

i can't get my code to find the pdf i'm trying to use. does it need to be saved somewhere in particular?

[@MindsetMinutess]

you have to save it in the same directory with this .py code

[@shahzan525]

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[@dianamarahenry1020]

I guess it doesn't matter if "the" is typed as "teh" as the presenter did!