How to extract text from PDF with Python

Extracting text from a PDF file is quite a simple task to do and can be a time-saver when working with PDF files. It doesn't take that much time to write the code and it is reusable, what more can a person ask for! The library used in this case is PyPDF2.
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[@evilcomputer1258]

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[@tsm4201979]

the new extraction requests involved "only" highlighted text"

[@TheKylesauce]

Whenever I run the script, even on a couple different PDFs, it returns hundreds of symbols: !F*!9#/='*%$!,%(('.! Like this, but literally hundreds of them. I've tried it on several different PDFs. I'm not sure what I'm getting wrong.

[@Pythonenthusiast]

Hey there, I am not sure if this would help, but it is worth trying. Instead of opening the file as it is, you could try encoding it. Instead of the line opened_file = open(target_file, 'rb'), you can try the following: with open(target_file, encoding = 'utf8') as f: opened_file = f.read() Hope this helps!