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Python 3 PyMuPDF Script to Extract Text From PDF and Save it in TXT File Using Fitz Module
Jan 9, 2025
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uh Hello friends welcome to this video
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so in this video we will actually be
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talking about a very simple python
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script which allows you to actually
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extract all the data all the text from
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the PDF document so you will basically
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see this is actually the PDF document
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that we are taking for example and there
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are three pages available in this PDF
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document this is the first page this is
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the second page and this is the third
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page and all the text which is written
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inside this PDF document we will try to
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extract it using using a very simple
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python script and we will be actually be
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using this module which is Fitz fits
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module and the name of the library is
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Pym PDF Pym PDF it's basically a python
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library for working with PDF documents
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and it is used for data extraction
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analysis conversion and manipulation of
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PDF this is their official website you
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can read the more documentation more
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about it so the simple command is there
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you just need to go to your command line
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and you should have python installed on
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your machine I have this version you
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will see that
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uh three the latest version of python
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installed on my machine so you just need
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to go to V vs code and just open your
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command line and pip install py pdf2 and
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fi TZ so these are the two commands you
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need to have pypd sorry this is not py m
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U PDF and Fitz so these are the two
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modules that you need to install Pym PDF
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and Fitz so I have already installed
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this so I will now be starting this uh
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script here writing it step by step so
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the very first thing we need to import
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is
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the we need to import the fits and the
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Pym PDF library at the very top you will
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simply say import fit TZ so we have
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successfully imported that and after
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this we will actually be writing the
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main function right here so just give it
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a if condition right here and we will
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have this main function inside this
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python
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script so here you need to gives the
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path of the input PDF file so here we
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will simply write here PDF uncore path
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so my PDF file is present in the same
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directory you will see that sample.pdf
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it is present in the same directory so I
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will simply give the name of the file
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sample.pdf and then we need to give the
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output file name here which will
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actually get created automatically after
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executing the script so output.txt you
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can give any name of your choice so
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after this we will actually write a very
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basic function which is extract text
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from PDF so this will be a custom
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function we will simply write here and
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here we need to pass these two things as
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arguments to this function so the very
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first thing is PDF path and and the text
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path so now we need to Define this
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function right here at the very top so
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in Python we can Define external
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function using this def keyword so here
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we can simply say extract text from PDF
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so there will be two arguments which we
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need to pass right here in this function
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PDF path and txt
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path so now inside this function right
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here we just need to do the necessary
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step in order to actually extract the
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data from the PDF document
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so so the very first thing we will do we
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will simply open the PDF document
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programmatically so we can simply use
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this basic function which is available
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in this Library fits and it has a open
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function we will simply use the open
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function right here to actually open the
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input PDF path so you can see that PDF
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path is actually passed as an argument
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right here we are passing it so
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sample.pdf so it will actually open this
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file programmatically using this open
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function right here so after opening
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this file we now need to actually
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extract all the data all the text which
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is written inside the PDF
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document so we we will simply again use
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the open function right here and this
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time we will actually open the txt file
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right here we will actually create this
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file in this root directory so for
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actually reading the file or creating
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the file we in both the cases we use the
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open function so now we are actually
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writing the file text path so here we
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need to provide so there are a list of
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flags out there so w stands for right R
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stands for read so here we need to
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provide the right flag because we are
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actually creating the text file as an
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output and the third parameter we need
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to give is the encoding which is default
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encoding is utf-8 for if you are doing
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text file and then we need to Simply say
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as text file so we have simply declaring
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this variable right here as text file
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this is actually the format of this open
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synext right here so we are simply
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opening or creating a text file in the
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same directory and uh this will
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output.txt will get created after you
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execute the script
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so now we just need to iterate
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go over each page in the PDF document
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and extract all the
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text very basic step so we need to
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iterate of all the pages first of all we
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need to calculate how many pages are
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there in the PDF document so you will
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see in the in input PDF document there
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are three pages so it will actually
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first of all calculate the total number
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of pages so for calculating the total
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number of pages we have a function Right
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Here length function and here we can
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pass our document right
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here so this length function guys will
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return the actual number of pages which
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are there in the PDF document so the
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this document that we are passing it to
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the length function it will actually
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return the number of pages which are
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present so in this case it will return
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three pages so for all the three pages
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it will we need to do the same step so
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that's why you we are using the for Loop
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here so the very first thing we will do
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here we need need to load that page so
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there is this method available built-in
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method available in this Library so we
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will simply load this page and we need
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to pass the actual page number as an
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argument to this function so it will
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actually programmatically load that page
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in this python script and after that we
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just need to
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extract the text right here in which is
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present in the PDF so now to extract the
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text again a built-in function is
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available guys in this Library which is
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get
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text getor
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text so it's a very powerful Library it
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basically contains all these pre-built
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methods that you can use so one such
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method is the in order to get the text
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in each page so after we get this text
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we now need to Simply write this text in
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the file we need to write the text to
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the txt file so for writing it we will
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simply use text Dot text file dot write
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so this function is available in the
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python library because we are actually
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using this variable you can see text
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file and it contains a write method and
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here we need to write this text that we
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extracted so after
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we write the text we need to Simply move
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to the next line so again we will write
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a new line character so new line new
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line so this will differentiate if you
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are if you are going to the next page we
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need to shift to the new line corrector
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so we are simply typing the new line
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corrector twice right here this
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completes the script guys so now if I
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try to run the
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script you will basically see in the
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left hand
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side if I just write here python
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app.py you will see in the left hand
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side uh output.txt will be created
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so let me open this in the um in the
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wrong directory so now let me just type
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here python app.py so you will see a
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notification comes right here extracted
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text from PDF and in the left hand side
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a new file has been created if you open
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this file you will see all the text has
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been successfully extracted in this file
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here you will see
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that so in this easy way guys you can
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extract any text from a PDF document and
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save it as a txt file uh this is really
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used in various scenarios you need to
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basically save your text from PDF so in
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those situations you can use this script
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it's very simple I explained you step by
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step how we imported that module then we
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EXT Define this function we open the PDF
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document first of all using the open
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function and then we actually did a
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simple for Loop and uh iterated all the
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pages which are present in the PDF
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document we loaded that page we
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extracted text then we write text in the
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PDF txt file and that's all so these are
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all the steps which are necessary for
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this application so thank you very much
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for watching this video so you can try
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out with the unlimited number of pages
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uh I just taken an example right here
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which contains three pages so if you
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have a lot of pages as well it will
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definitely work the script so make sure
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that your PDF file is present in the
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same directory while you're working
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while you're running the script right
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here so just make sure that you provide
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the correct path so this is actually the
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pyp uh fits and Pym PDF Library here we
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can use the python code for extracting
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the text from the PDF document so thank
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you very much for watching this video
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