Learn how to perform OCR on PDF documents to recognize and extract text from scanned PDF documents programmatically. In this article, you will learn how to OCR PDF and extract text from PDF documents in Python.
Convert PDF to Text in Python
PDF is a well-known and globally used document format because of its cross platform support. Many people prefer to share and print the documents in PDF format. Since PDF is very much in the business, you may need to extract plain text from multiple PDF files programmatically for text analysis or further processing. So let’s see how to perform PDF to text conversion from within a Python application.