Whitespace gone from PDF extraction, and strange word interpretation

Question

Using the snippet below, I\'ve attempted to extract the text data from this PDF file.

import pyPdf

def get_text(path):
    # Load PDF into pyPDF
    pdf = p         


        

Answer 1

As an alternative to PyPDF2, I suggest pdftotext:

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""Use pdftotext to extract text from PDFs."""

import pdftotext

with open("foobar.pdf") as f:
    pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)

# Iterate over all the pages
for page in pdf:
    print(page)