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Extract Text from a PDF — PyPDF2 documentation

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You can use visitor-functions to control which part of a page you want to process and extract. The visitor-functions you provide will get called for each operator or for each text fragment. The function provided in argument visitor_text of function extract_text has five arguments: current transformation matrix, text matrix, font-dictionary and font-size. In most cases the x and y coordinates of the current position are in index 4 and 5 of the current transformation matrix. The font-dictionary may be None in case of unknown fonts. If not None it may e.g. contain key “/BaseFont” with value “/Arial,Bold”. Caveat: In complicated documents the calculated positions might be wrong. The function provided in argument visitor_operand_before has four arguments: operand, operand-arguments, current transformation matrix and text matrix. The following example reads the text of page 4 of this PDF document, but ignores header (y 50). The following example converts page 3 of this

Extract Text from a PDF - PyPDF2 documentation --> Extract Text from a PDF Edit on GitHub Extract Text from a PDF  You can extract text from a PDF like this: from PyPDF2 import PdfReader reader = PdfReader ( "example.pdf" ) page = reader . pages [ 0 ] print ( page . extract_text ()) you can also choose to limit the text orientation you want to extract, e.g: # extract only text oriented up print ( page . extract_text ( 0 )) # extract text oriented up and turned left print ( page . extract_text (( 0 , 90 ))) Refer to extract_text for more details. Using a visitor  You can use visitor-functions

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