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

If wanting to extract text from a table, I've found tabula to be easily implemented, accurate, and fast:

to get a pandas dataframe:

import tabula

df = tabula.read_pdf('your.pdf')

df

By default, it ignores page content outside of the table. So far, I've only tested on a single-page, single-table file, but there are kwargs to accommodate multiple pages and/or multiple tables.

install via:

pip install tabula-py
# or
conda install -c conda-forge tabula-py 

In terms of straight-up text extraction see: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63190886/9249533