Refer, pikepdf, which is based on qpdf. It automatically converts pdfs to be extractable. Code for Reference: import pikepdf def remove_password_from_pdf(filename, password=None): pdf = pikepdf.open(filename, password=password) pdf.save(“pdf_file_with_no_password.pdf”) if __name__ == “__main__”: remove_password_from_pdf(filename=”/path/to/file”)
The below code will work, to extract data text data from both searchable and non-searchable PDF’s. import fitz text = “” path = “Your_scanned_or_partial_scanned.pdf” doc = fitz.open(path) for page in doc: text += page.get_text()() You can refer this link for more information. If you don’t have fitz module you need to do this: pip install … Read more
Here is a working example of extracting text from a PDF file using the current version of PDFMiner(September 2016) from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from io import StringIO def convert_pdf_to_txt(path): rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec=”utf-8″ laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, … Read more
Here’s a copy-and-paste-ready example that lists the top-left corners of every block of text in a PDF, and which I think should work for any PDF that doesn’t include “Form XObjects” that have text in them: from pdfminer.layout import LAParams, LTTextBox from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter … Read more
Here is a new solution that works with the latest version: from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from cStringIO import StringIO def convert_pdf_to_txt(path): rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec=”utf-8″ laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) fp = file(path, ‘rb’) interpreter … Read more