All of you must be familiar with what PDFs are. In fact, they are one of the most important and widely used digital media. 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.
Invented by Adobe , PDF is now an open standard maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). PDFs can contain links and buttons, form fields, audio, video, and business logic.
In this article, we will learn, how we can do various operations like:
Installation: Using simple python scripts!
We will be using a third-party module, pypdf.
pypdf is a python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:
To install pypdf, run the following command from the command line:
pip install pypdf
This module name is case-sensitive, so make sure the y is lowercase and everything else is uppercase. All the code and PDF files used in this tutorial/article are available here .
1. Extracting text from PDF file