This post covers basic PDF manipulation for daily tasks using simple Python modules.

1. Merging mulitple PDF
2. Extract text from PDF
3. Extract image from PDF

Merging PDF

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger
pdfs = ['a.pdf', b.pdf]
merger = PdfFileMerger()

for pdf in pdfs:
    merger.append(pdf)

merger.write("output.pdf")

Extract text from PDF

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))

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Extract Image (JPEG) from PDF

 

import os
import tempfile
from pdf2image import convert_from_path

filename = 'target.pdf'

with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as path:
     images_from_path = convert_from_path(filename, output_folder=path, last_page=1, first_page =0)

base_filename  =  os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(filename))[0] + '.jpg'      

save_dir = 'your_saved_dir'

for page in images_from_path:
    page.save(os.path.join(save_dir, base_filename), 'JPEG')

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