Extract text per page with Python pdfMiner?

Question

I have experimented with both pyPdf and pdfMiner to extract text from pdf files. I have some unfriendly pdfs that only pdfMiner is able to extract successfully. I am using t

Answer 1

This is how you write all the pages to separate files:

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
import io
import os

fp = open('Files/Company_list/0010/pdf_files/testfile3.pdf', 'rb')
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
retstr = io.StringIO()
print(type(retstr))
codec = 'utf-8'
laparams = LAParams()
device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)

page_no = 0
for pageNumber, page in enumerate(PDFPage.get_pages(fp)):
    if pageNumber == page_no:
        interpreter.process_page(page)

        data = retstr.getvalue()

        with open(os.path.join('Files/Company_list/0010/text_parsed/2017AR', f'pdf page {page_no}.txt'), 'wb') as file:
            file.write(data.encode('utf-8'))
        data = ''
        retstr.truncate(0)
        retstr.seek(0)

    page_no += 1

Just replace page_no with page number you want if you want specific page numbers.

Answer 2

for pageNumber, page in enumerate(PDFDocument.get_pages()):
    if pageNumber == 42:
        #do something with the page

There is a pretty good article here.