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Python 3 pypdf Script to Extract Text From PDF Document and Save it as TXT File
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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 package which allows you to
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extract uh all the text from the PDF
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document uh this is actually the package
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here which is py pdf this is actually
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the package name uh let me show you the
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package here if you go to the website of
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python uh just search for this package
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py pdf it's a very popular package for
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extraction of text from PDF documents so
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this is actually the package the command
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is simple you simply install this by
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executing this command after installing
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it I will now show you basically we have
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taking a simple PDF document which
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contains two pages the first page right
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here you see some text is
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there now this is actually the second
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page here so two pages are there so once
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I execute this Python script so what you
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will see it will actually extract all
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the text and save it inside the txt file
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so let me execute this script here app8
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py so you will see it will extract all
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the text and print it inside the
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terminal and it will also save it inside
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the txt file so as you can see all the
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text has been successfully saved right
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here this is page one this is page two
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so now let me show you the Python script
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here
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uh so first of all I will show you step
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by
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step so I will show you step by step so
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just wait let me
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just So first of all you just need to
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import this module so we simply import
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this py
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pdf and from this we just need to import
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this uh pdf
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reader after that we just need to
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initialize it so this PDF reader and
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here we just need to pass the actual PDF
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file that you're working right here so
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we PDF file is present right in the same
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directory which is sample PDF after you
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initialize this you can
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actually calculate the total number of
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pages by using this length
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function and it contains this reader dot
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pages this is actually an array here
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which will return the number of pages
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inside this PDF so if I just execute the
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script
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here so it will print out which is two
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so it will calculate the total number of
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pages and print it out after that we can
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specifically extract the text from a
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specific page here let's suppose you
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only want to extract the text from the
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very first page so what you
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do you first of all get access to that
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page and then to get get the actual text
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it contains this function extract text
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so we simply call this function and then
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we print out the actual text in the
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first page because here we are providing
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the first page here which is zero so if
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I execute this now you will see it will
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print out all the text which is present
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in the first page and it is outputting
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it inside the terminal and now we can
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save all the text in the txt file by
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using the open function so we can call
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the open function and we can make a new
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file result.txt in the write mode and in
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inside
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encoding
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UTF8 so here we can actually call the
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function
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we can loop
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through all the
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pages reader dot pages and loop through
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all the pages and extract
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it by using this function extract text
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and then we use the write function
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f.right to write the
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content to write the text
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if so like
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this so here we are looping through all
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the pages and extracting the text and
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writing it inside our result txt so if I
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just execute you will see it will create
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this file uh which
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is result.txt
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So you'll see it will create this file
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output.txt this is actually your first
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page this is your second page it has
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successfully extracted all the text from
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the PDF document so we have taken this
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example which contains two pages in the
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PDF it extracted all the text from the
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PDF document so you can see guys you can
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use this package very easily simply
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install this and uh I've shown you a
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very simple example in this video uh
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thank you very much for watching this
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