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.
Convert PDF to TXT in Python
PDF is a well-known file format that provides a consistent layout of the document across heterogeneous platforms. It provides a bunch of features and elements to create rich text documents. However, in certain cases, e.g. to parse the text in the document, you have to convert PDF files to TXT format programmatically. To accomplish that, this article covers how to convert a PDF file to TXT format in Python.