How to extract text from a PDF file?

Question

I\'m trying to extract the text included in this PDF file using Python.

I\'m using the PyPDF2 module, and have the following script:

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Answer 1

I recommend to use pymupdf or pdfminer.six.

Those packages are not maintained:

• PyPDF2, PyPDF3, PyPDF4
• pdfminer (without .six)

How to read pure text with pymupdf

There are different options which will give different results, but the most basic one is:

import fitz  # this is pymupdf

with fitz.open("my.pdf") as doc:
    text = ""
    for page in doc:
        text += page.getText()

print(text)