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How to summarize pdf file into plain text, and create and place new file on desktop?

I want to automatically turn pdf files into text, and then take that output to save a file on my desktop.
Example:
-- pdf converted text: "HELLO WORLD"
-- save file on desktop on a .txt file with "HELLO WORLD" saved.
I have done:
fp = open('/Users/zain/Desktop', 'pdf_summary')
fp.write(text)
I thought this would save my file on the desktop given the input (text) which I used as the variable to house the converted text.
Full Code:
from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
reader = PdfReader("/Users/zain/Desktop/Week2_POL305_Manfieldetal.pdf")
text = ""
for page in reader.pages:
text += page.extract_text() + "\n"
print(text)
fp = open('/Users/zain/Desktop', 'pdf_summary')
fp.write(text)
fp.write(text)

PDF may consist of all sorts of things, not only text.
You therefore have to explicitly extract text from a PDF - if that is what you want.
In package PyMuPDF you could do it this way:
import fitz # import pymupdf
import pathlib
doc=fitz.open("input.pdf")
text = "\n".join([page.get_text() for page in doc])
pathlib.Path("input.txt").write_bytes(text.encode()) # supports non ASCII text

This works for me.
from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
#path to pdf file
reader=PdfReader(r'C:\Users\zain\Desktop\Week2_POL305_Manfieldetal.pdf')
text = ""
for page in reader.pages:
text += page.extract_text() + '\n'
#path to save file on desktop
#you can keep txt, leave nothing, or change it to another file type
fp = open(r'C:\Users\zain\Desktop\pdf_summary.txt','a')
fp.writelines(text)

Issue creating an interactive table of contents using links [Python's FPDF package]

I am trying to create table of contents using Python's FPDF package (https://pyfpdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
I want the table of contents to be at the top of the PDF document, and clickable so that the reader is instantly taken to a section.
The issue I have is that for the links to work, the table of contents needs to be at the end of the document.
I have tried using python's PyPDF2 to split the created PDF document and move the table of contents to the beginning of the document. The problem is that in the resulting PDF the links no longer work.
I am using python (v3.7) with Spyder.
Here is my code for creating the table of contents:
from fpdf import FPDF
# This is my section with link to table of contents
report.add_page(orientation='p')
report.set_font('Helvetica', size=22, style ='B')
report.cell(200, 10, 'section', 0, 2, 'l')
DD = report.add_link()
report.set_link(DD)
# Table of contents including that one section
report.write(5, 'Section',DD)
Here is my code for rearranging the PDF document (TOC = table of contents):
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter, PdfFileMerger
PDF_report = PdfFileReader('file.pdf')
pdf_bulk_writer = PdfFileWriter()
output_filename_bulk = "bulk.pdf"
pdf_TOC_writer = PdfFileWriter()
output_filename_TOC = "TOC.pdf"
for page in range(PDF_report.getNumPages()):
current_page = PDF_report.getPage(page)
if page == PDF_report.getNumPages()-1:
pdf_TOC_writer.addPage(current_page)
if page <= PDF_report.getNumPages()-2:
pdf_bulk_writer.addPage(current_page)
# Write the data to disk
with open(output_filename_TOC, "wb") as out:
pdf_TOC_writer.write(out)
print("created", output_filename_TOC)
# Write the data to disk
with open(output_filename_bulk, "wb") as out:
pdf_bulk_writer.write(out)
print("created", output_filename_bulk)
pdfs = ['TOC.pdf', 'bulk.pdf']
merger = PdfFileMerger()
for pdf in pdfs:
merger.append(pdf)
merger.write("result.pdf")
merger.close()

How to convert whole pdf to text in python

I have to convert whole pdf to text. i have seen at many places converting pdf to text but particular page.
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
import os
def text_extractor(path):
with open(os.path.join(path,file), 'rb') as f:
pdf = PdfFileReader(f)
###Here i can specify page but i need to convert whole pdf without specifying pages###
page = pdf.getPage(0)
text = page.extractText()
print(text)
if __name__ == '__main__':
path="C:\\Users\\AAAA\\Desktop\\BB"
for file in os.listdir(path):
if not file.endswith(".pdf"):
continue
text_extractor(path)
How to convert whole pdf file to text without using getpage()??

You may want to use textract as this answer recommends to get the full document if all you want is the text.
If you want to use PyPDF2 then you can first get the number of pages then iterate over each page such as:
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
import os
def text_extractor(path):
with open(os.path.join(path,file), 'rb') as f:
pdf = PdfFileReader(f)
###Here i can specify page but i need to convert whole pdf without specifying pages###
text = ""
for page_num in range(pdf.getNumPages()):
page = pdf.getPage(page_num)
text += page.extractText()
print(text)
if __name__ == '__main__':
path="C:\\Users\\AAAA\\Desktop\\BB"
for file in os.listdir(path):
if not file.endswith(".pdf"):
continue
text_extractor(path)
Though you may want to remember which page the text came from in which case you could use a list:
page_text = []
for page_num in range(pdf.getNumPages()): # For each page
page = pdf.getPage(page_num) # Get that page's reference
page_text.append(page.extractText()) # Add that page to our array
for page in page_text:
print(page) # print each page

You could use tika to accomplish this task, but the output needs a little cleaning.
from tika import parser
parse_entire_pdf = parser.from_file('mypdf.pdf', xmlContent=True)
parse_entire_pdf = parse_entire_pdf['content']
print (parse_entire_pdf)
This answer uses PyPDF2 and encode('utf-8') to keep the output per page together.
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
def pdf_text_extractor(path):
with open(path, 'rb') as f:
pdf = PdfFileReader(f)
# Get total pdf page number.
totalPageNumber = pdf.numPages
currentPageNumber = 0
while (currentPageNumber < totalPageNumber):
page = pdf.getPage(currentPageNumber)
text = page.extractText()
# The encoding put each page on a single line.
# type is <class 'bytes'>
print(text.encode('utf-8'))
#################################
# This outputs the text to a list,
# but it doesn't keep paragraphs
# together
#################################
# output = text.encode('utf-8')
# split = str(output, 'utf-8').split('\n')
# print (split)
#################################
# Process next page.
currentPageNumber += 1
path = 'mypdf.pdf'
pdf_text_extractor(path)

Try pdfreader. You can extract either plain text or decoded text containing "pdf markdown":
from pdfreader import SimplePDFViewer, PageDoesNotExist
fd = open(you_pdf_file_name, "rb")
viewer = SimplePDFViewer(fd)
plain_text = ""
pdf_markdown = ""
try:
while True:
viewer.render()
pdf_markdown += viewer.canvas.text_content
plain_text += "".join(viewer.canvas.strings)
viewer.next()
except PageDoesNotExist:
pass

PDF is a page-oriented format & therefore you'll need to deal with the concept of pages.
What makes it perhaps even more difficult, you're not guaranteed that the text excerpts you're able to extract are extracted in the same order as they are presented on the page: PDF allows one to say "put this text within a 4x3 box situated 1" from the top, with a 1" left margin.", and then I can put the next set of text somewhere else on the same page.
Your extractText() function simply gets the extracted text blocks in document order, not presentation order.
Tables are notoriously difficult to extract in a common, meaningful way... You see them as tables, PDF sees them as text blocks placed on the page with little or no relationship.
Still, getPage() and extractText() are good starting points & if you have simply formatted pages, they may work fine.

I found out a very simple way to do this.
You have to follow this steps:
Install PyPDF2 :To do this step if you use Anaconda, search for Anaconda Prompt and digit the following command, you need administrator permission to do this.
pip install PyPDF2
If you're not using Anaconda you have to install pip and put its path
to your cmd or terminal.
Python Code: This following code shows how to convert a pdf file very easily:
import PyPDF2
with open("pdf file path here",'rb') as file_obj:
pdf_reader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file_obj)
raw = pdf_reader.getPage(0).extractText()
print(raw)

I just used pdftotext module to get this done easily.
import pdftotext
# Load your PDF
with open("test.pdf", "rb") as f:
pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)
# creating a text file after iterating through all pages in the pdf
file = open("test.txt", "w")
for page in pdf:
file.write(page)
file.close()
Link: https://github.com/manojitballav/pdf-text

Reading pdf files line by line using python

I used the following code to read the pdf file, but it does not read it. What could possibly be the reason?
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
reader = PdfFileReader("example.pdf")
contents = reader.pages[0].extractText().split("\n")
print(contents)
The output is [u''] instead of reading the content.

import re
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
reader = PdfFileReader("example.pdf")
for page in reader.pages:
text = page.extractText()
text_lower = text.lower()
for line in text_lower:
if re.search("abc", line):
print(line)
I use it to iterate page by page of pdf and search for key terms in it and process further.

May be this can help you to read PDF.
import pyPdf
def getPDFContent(path):
content = ""
pages = 10
p = file(path, "rb")
pdf_content = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(p)
for i in range(0, pages):
content += pdf_content.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
return content

I think you need to specify the disc name, it's missing in your directory. For example "D:/Users/Rahul/Desktop/Dfiles/106_2015_34-76357.pdf". I tried and I can read without any problem.
Or if you want to find the file path using the os module which you didn't really associate with your directory, you can try the following:
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
import os
def find(name, path):
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
if name in files:
return os.path.join(root, name)
directory = find('106_2015_34-76357.pdf', 'D:/Users/Rahul/Desktop/Dfiles/')
f = open(directory, 'rb')
reader = PdfFileReader(f)
contents = reader.getPage(0).extractText().split('\n')
f.close()
print(contents)
The find function can be found in Nadia Alramli's answer here Find a file in python

To Read the files from Multiple Folders in a directory, below code can be used-
This Example is for reading pdf files:
import os
from tika import parser
path = "/usr/local/" # path directory
directory=os.path.join(path)
for r,d,f in os.walk(directory): #going through subdirectories
for file in f:
if ".pdf" in file: # reading only PDF files
file_join = os.path.join(r, file) #getting full path
file_data = parser.from_file(file_join) # parsing the PDF file
text = file_data['content'] # read the content
print(text) #print the content

def getTextPDF(pdfFileName,password=''):
import PyPDF2
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter
from nltk import sent_tokenize
""" Extract Text from pdf """
pdf_file=open(pdfFileName,'rb')
read_pdf=PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_file)
if password !='':
read_pdf.decrypt(password)
text=[]
for i in range(0,read_pdf.getNumPages()):
text.append(read_pdf.getPage(i).extractText())
text = '\n'.join (text).replace("\n",'')
text = sent_tokenize(text)
return text

The issue was one of two things: (1) The text was not on page one - hence a user error. (2) PyPDF2 failed to extract the text - hence a bug in PyPDF2.
Sadly, the second one still happens for some PDFs.

Hello Rahul Pipalia,
If not install PyPDF2 in your python so first install PyPDF2 after use this module.
Installation Steps for Ubuntu (Install python-pypdf)
First, open terminal
After type sudo apt-get install python-pypdf
Your Probelm Solution
Try this below code,
# Import Library
import PyPDF2
# Which you want to read file so give file name with ".pdf" extension
pdf_file = open('Your_Pdf_File_Name.pdf')
read_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf_file)
number_of_pages = read_pdf.getNumPages()
#Give page number of the pdf file (How many page in pdf file).
# #param Page_Nuber_of_the_PDF_file: Give page number here i.e 1
page = read_pdf.getPage(Page_Nuber_of_the_PDF_file)
page_content = page.extractText()
# Display content of the pdf
print page_content
Download the PDF from below link and try this code,
https://www.dropbox.com/s/4qad66r2361hvmu/sample.pdf?dl=1
I hope my answer is helpful.
If any query so comments, please.

How to use Python to pick up texts on PDF documents

I have tons of commercial invoices to work with, in PDF format. Some information such the billing party, transaction occurred date and amount of money are needed to be picked.
In another word, I need to copy these information from each commercial invoice and paste them into an Excel spreadsheet.
These information are all at the same position on the PDF document, always the same place on each PDF.
Is there a way that I can have Python to pick up the information and store them into Excel spreadsheet, instead of manually copy&paste?
Thanks.

to read the pdf file you can use StringIO
from StringIO import StringIO
pdfContent = StringIO(getPDFContent("Billineg.pdf").encode("ascii", "ignore"))
for line in pdfContent:
print line
other option you can use pypdf
small example
from pyPdf import PdfFileReader
input1 = PdfFileReader(file("Billineg.pdf", "rb"))
# print the title of document1.pdf
print "title = %s" % (input1.getDocumentInfo().title)
after extracting data you can write them into csv or for excel you can use xlwt
getpdf content is method
import pyPdf
def getPDFContent(path):
content = ""
num_pages = 10
p = file(path, "rb")
pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(p)
for i in range(0, num_pages):
content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
return content