How to read line by line in pdf file using PyPdf?

Looks like what you have is a large chunk of text data that you want to interpret line-by-line.

You can use the StringIO class to wrap that content as a seekable file-like object:

>>> import StringIO
>>> content="big\nugly\ncontents\nof\nmultiple\npdf files"
>>> buf = StringIO.StringIO(content)
>>> buf.readline()
'big\n'
>>> buf.readline()
'ugly\n'
>>> buf.readline()
'contents\n'
>>> buf.readline()
'of\n'
>>> buf.readline()
'multiple\n'
>>> buf.readline()
'pdf files'
>>> buf.seek(0)
>>> buf.readline()
'big\n'

In your case, do:

from StringIO import StringIO

# Read each line of the PDF
pdfContent = StringIO(getPDFContent("test.pdf").encode("ascii", "ignore"))
for line in pdfContent:
    doSomething(line.strip())