Extract text from PDF in Python
How to Extract text from PDF using Python via C++
How to extract text from PDF using Aspose.PDF for Python via C++
In order to extract text PDF file, we’ll use Aspose.PDF for .NET API which is a feature-rich, powerful, and easy-to-use document manipulation API for python-cpp platform. Open NuGet package manager, search for Aspose.PDF and install. You may also use the following command from the Package Manager Console.
Extract text from PDF in Python
You need Aspose.PDF library to try the code in your environment.
- Load the PDF with an instance of Document.
- Create TextAbsorber object to extract text.
- Accept the absorber for all the pages.
- Get the extracted text
- Create a writer and open the file, write a line of text to the file
Extract text from PDF with Python
This sample code shows how to extract text from PDF documents
Input file:
File not added
Output format:
PDF
Output file:
import AsposePDFPythonWrappers as ap
# Create an object of the PdfExtractor class
pdfExtractor = ap.PdfExtractor()
# Bind the input PDF
pdfExtractor.BindPdf("sample.pdf")
# ExtractText
pdfExtractor.extract_text()
pdfExtractor.get_text("sample.txt")