A simple guide to text from PDF. This is an extension of the Convert PDF pages to JPEG with python post

1. Objectives:
   1. 1. Extract text from PDF
2. Required Tools:
   1. 1. Poppler for windows— Poppler is a PDF rendering library . Include the pdftoppm utility
      2. Poppler for Mac — If HomeBrew already installed, can use brew install Poppler
      3. pdftotext— Python module. Wraps the poppler pdftotext utility to convert PDF to text.
3. Steps:
   1. 1. Install Poppler. For windows, Add “xxx/bin/” to env path
      2. pip install pdftotext

Usage (sample code from pdftotext github)

import pdftotext

# Load your PDF
with open("Target.pdf", "rb") as f:
    pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)

# Save all text to a txt file.
with open('output.txt', 'w') as f:
    f.write("\n\n".join(pdf))

Further notes 

• https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext

See also:

• Convert PDF pages to JPEG with python