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How to Extract Text from PDF Files in Python

Extract all readable text from a PDF file using PyPDF2, iterating over each page and concatenating the content.

pdf text-extraction pypdf2
Python 
import PyPDF2

def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
    text = ""
    with open(pdf_path, "rb") as file:
        reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(file)
        for page in reader.pages:
            text += page.extract_text() + "\n"
    return text.strip()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    pdf_path = "sample.pdf"
    extracted…
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