Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Extracting text

To extract the pages of the pdf file, the PyPDF2 module has the extractText() method. Create a script called extract_text.py and write the following content in it:

import PyPDF2with open('test.pdf', 'rb') as pdf:    read_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdf)    pdf_page = read_pdf.getPage(1)    pdf_content = pdf_page.extractText()    print(pdf_content)

Run the script and you will get the following output:

student@ubuntu:~/work$ python3 extract_text.py

Following is the output:

3Pythoncommands93.1Comments.........................................93.2Numbersandotherdatatypes..............................93.2.1Thetypefunction................................93.2.2Strings.......................................103.2.3Listsandtuples................................ ...