Reading PDF File using Python Web Scraping

In this tutorial we will learn how to read data from pdf file. To do that we will use a library called PyPDF2. This library is specifically created to work with pdf files.
In one of our previous tutorial we learned how to download a pdf file using requests library. Now if you want to use the data in the pdf file in some meaningful way such as text analysis, creating summary, sentiment analysis etc then you should be able to read the data from pdf using python or any other programming language.
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. It uses .pdf extension. It is used to present and exchange documents reliably, independent of software, hardware, or operating system.
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[mnvfutobl]

Lot of rambling here but how do you actually parse thru and format the text

[gvenagas]

I found that by opening a pdf file with Mozilla Firefox and inspecting it with the developer tools you can collect its text (with the help of JavaScript) after the web browser has converted it to HTML and maybe save it for further processing with someone programming language.

[khalilhadbi]

hey i have a problem with extraction from pdf, when i do extraction i have a code like that = % ' "%.... how can i solve it please?

[padhanisa]

After .extractText step I am getting the result as blank line.Why is it so?