Welcome folks today in this blog post we will be extracting text from pdf file in python 3 using pypdf2 library. All the source code of the project will be given below.

Requirements

python 3 should be installed on your system

pypdf2 library should be installed on your system

Installation

In order to install pypdf2 library we can use the pip command to install

pip install pypdf2

After installing it you can make a app.py file inside the root directory and copy paste the following code

app.py

# importing required modules 
import PyPDF2 

# creating a pdf file object 
pdfFileObj = open('create.pdf', 'rb') 

# creating a pdf reader object 
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj) 

# printing number of pages in pdf file 
print(pdfReader.numPages) 

# creating a page object 
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0) 

# extracting text from page 
print(pageObj.extractText()) 

# closing the pdf file object 
pdfFileObj.close()

Now if you execute this python script app.py by running this command like below

python app.py

You can see the result like this