How can I read pdf in python? [duplicate]

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You can USE PyPDF2 package

# install PyPDF2
pip install PyPDF2

Once you have it installed:

# importing all the required modules
import PyPDF2

# creating a pdf reader object
reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader('example.pdf')

# print the number of pages in pdf file
print(len(reader.pages))

# print the text of the first page
print(reader.pages[0].extract_text())

Follow the documentation.

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