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Simple PDF text extraction

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# pdftotext

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Simple PDF text extraction

```python
import pdftotext

# Load your PDF
with open("lorem_ipsum.pdf", "rb") as f:
pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)

# If it's password-protected
with open("secure.pdf", "rb") as f:
pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f, "secret")

# How many pages?
print(len(pdf))

# Iterate over all the pages
for page in pdf:
print(page)

# Read some individual pages
print(pdf[0])
print(pdf[1])

# Read all the text into one string
print("\n\n".join(pdf))
```


## OS Dependencies

Debian, Ubuntu, and friends:

```
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config python-dev
```

Fedora, Red Hat, and friends:

```
sudo yum install gcc-c++ pkgconfig poppler-cpp-devel python-devel redhat-rpm-config
```

macOS:

```
brew install pkg-config poppler
```


## Install

```
pip install pdftotext
```

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