Pure Python PDF to text converter « Python recipes « ActiveState Codeimport pyPdf def getPDFContent(path): content = "" # Load PDF into pyPDF pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb")) # Iterate pages for i in range(0, pdf.getNumPages()): # Extract text from page and add to content content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n" # Collapse whitespace content = " ".join(content.replace("\xa0", " ").strip().split()) return content print getPDFContent("test.pdf")
The pyPdf.pdf Module
