Sometimes, we want to extract text from a PDF file with Python
In this article, we’ll look at how to extract text from a PDF file with Python.
How to extract text from a PDF file with Python?
To extract text from a PDF file with Python, we can use the tika package.
To install it, we run
pip install tika
Then we use it by writing
from tika import parser
raw = parser.from_file('sample.pdf')
print(raw['content'])
to call parser.from_file with the PDF file path to read the PDF file.
And then we get the content with the 'content' key from the raw dict.
Conclusion
To extract text from a PDF file with Python, we can use the tika package.