Welcome folks today in this post we will be looking on how to extract text from pdf document and converting it pdf to text in tkinter using pypdf2 library. All the full source code of application is given below.

Get Started

In order to get started we need to install the following libraries by using the pip command as shown below

pip install tkinter

pip install pypdf2

After installing these libraries you need to make an app.py file and copy paste the following code

app.py

import tkinter as tk
import PyPDF2
import tkinter.ttk as ttk
from tkinter.filedialog import askopenfile
from tkinter.messagebox import showinfo
import pathlib


window=tk.Tk()
window.title("PDF to text converter")

def openfile():
    file=askopenfile(filetypes=[('PDF Files','*.pdf')])
    pdf_file=open(file.name,'rb')
    read_pdf=PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_file)
    no_of_pages=read_pdf.getNumPages()
    page=read_pdf.getPage(0)
    page_content=page.extractText()
    pathlib.Path('context.txt').write_text(page_content)
    showinfo("Done","Successfully Converted")
    
label=tk.Label(window,text="choose file: ")
label.grid(row=0,column=0,padx=5,pady=5)

button=ttk.Button(window,text="Select",width=30,command=openfile)
button.grid(row=0,column=1,padx=5,pady=5)

window.mainloop()

Now if you execute this python script by typing the below command

python app.py