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Python Script to Extract Text From PDF Using PyPDF2 Library in Terminal
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Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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so in this video I will show you a
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Python script which will actually
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extract the text from the PDF document
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uh so we have this simple PDF document
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present right here in the same directory
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sample PDF it contains two pages and we
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will try to extract all this text and
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try to print this in the
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terminal so this is really easy there is
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a package here that you just need to
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install it's a very popular package py
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pdf2 so just go to the command line just
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execute this command pip install py pdf2
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so I have already installed it and then
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after installing it I will just show you
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how to use
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this so first of all just import this
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package like this from py pdf2 we just
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need to
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import this class here which is PDF
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reader after that as you can see it
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contains this PDF reader class here from
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py PDF2 and then we just need to
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initialize this so for initializing it
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we will be passing the path of the
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PDF so to this class here PDF reader and
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simply pass the full path of the PDF
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file so it is present in the same
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directory so we have passed the simple
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name here
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sample.pdf after that there is a
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function which is there we declare a
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variable text where we'll be storing it
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and then we will loop through all the
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pages total number of pages like
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this so this object here it contains
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pages right here which will contain the
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total number of pages so we are running
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a simple for loop it will loop through
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all the pages and then we will
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extract so there is a function right
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here which is extract text so it will
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extract all the text from the PDF
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document and I will just print this text
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in the next line so print text so now
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what happens if I execute this script
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here python app
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py so for this you just need to sorry
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just make sure that this P is
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capital so just make sure the spelling
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is correct and then now run
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this you will see all the text has been
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successfully extracted you can see
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that so in this easy way guys you can
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extract all the text from the PDF
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document using this package py PDF2
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inside
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Python uh thank you very much for
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