pdfminer

import os from io import StringIO from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path): # Ensure a dummy PDF exists for demonstration, or replace with a real path if not os.path.exists(pdf_path): print(f"Error: PDF file not found at {pdf_path}. Creating a dummy PDF for demonstration.") # In a real scenario, you'd handle the missing file appropriately. # For a runnable example, we'll create a simple dummy file. try: from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas c = canvas.Canvas(pdf_path) c.drawString(100, 750, "Hello, PDFMiner!") c.drawString(100, 730, "This is a dummy PDF for testing.") c.save() print(f"Dummy PDF created at {pdf_path}") except ImportError: print("Please install reportlab (`pip install reportlab`) to create dummy PDF, or provide a real PDF.") return "" rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, laparams=laparams) with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as fp: parser = PDFParser(fp) document = PDFDocument(parser) interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device) for page in PDFPage.create_pages(document): interpreter.process_page(page) text = retstr.getvalue() device.close() retstr.close() return text if __name__ == '__main__': pdf_file = 'dummy.pdf' extracted_content = extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_file) print("\n--- Extracted Text ---") print(extracted_content)