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Python Script to Extract Text From PDF Using PyMuPDF Library & Save it as TXT File
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys welcome to this video So
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in this video I will show you how to
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extract
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uh the data from a PDF file here So all
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the text we will extract and save it
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inside a txt file So this is actually a
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sample PDF file which we will be working
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here For this I have written a simple
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Python script So once I run this Python
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script you will see all my text will be
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saved here to output.txt So once I open
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this you will see all the text from the
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PDF file has been extracted and saved
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inside this txt file So now for building
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this application we are using this uh
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package So you just need to install this
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uh pip install py mu pdf So this is
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essentially this package here we are
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using it py mu pdf So simply install
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this package uh I have already installed
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it and uh now I will show you step by
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step how to do this So first of all you
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just need to import this package py mu
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pdf Then we just need to initialize this
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package It contains this function which
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is open which will actually open this
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pdf file First of all just pass the
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address of the where the pdf file is
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stored Then we declared a variable here
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where we'll be storing all the text
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which will be
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extracted Then we loop through all the
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pages in the PDF by this for loop and
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then we actually store all the extracted
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text So this actually contains this
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function here get underscore text which
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will actually extract all the text from
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the PDF file and store it inside this
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variable text So we are looping through
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all the pages here in this for loop So
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after extracting all the data now we
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just need to
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print the text in the command line and
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also we need to save this inside a txt
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file So if I run this now this script
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here it will actually print this data
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right here Now we just need to store it
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inside a file For saving it we use the
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open function in Python and we simply
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provide the file name in which the data
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will be stored So this will be in write
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mode and here we'll be providing the
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encoding type
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UTF8 And then we simply use the write
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function to write all the data So once I
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now execute the script here you will see
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it will also create a file in the left
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hand
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side So result.txt txt is created here
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So if I open this you will see all the
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text is successfully extracted from the
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PDF file and save it as a txt file So in
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this way this is actually the Python
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package that you can use here
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freemediatools.com
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uh which contains thousands of tools
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