from io import StringIO
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter, PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
retstr = StringIO()
codec = 'utf-8' # 'utf16', 'utf-8'
laparams = LAParams()
device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
maxpages = 0
caching = True
pagenos = set()
password = ""
with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as fh:
for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fh, pagenos, maxpages=maxpages, password=password, caching=caching, check_extractable=True):
interpreter.process_page(page)
text = retstr.getvalue()
# close open handlers
device.close()
retstr.close()
if text:
return text
return None
text = extract_text_from_pdf('myPDF.pdf')