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pythonpdftotext

Read PDF in Python and convert to text in PDF

I have used this code to convert pdf to text. 

input1 = '//Home//Sai Krishna Dubagunta.pdf'
output = '//Home//Me.txt'
os.system(("pdftotext %s %s") %( input1, output))

I have created the Home directory and pasted the source file in it.

The output I get is

1

And no file with .txt was created. Where is the Problem?

Solution

  • Your expression

    ("pdftotext %s %s") %( input1, output)

    will translate to

    pdftotext //Home//Sai Krishna Dubagunta.pdf //Home//Me.txt

    which means that the first parameter passed to pdftotext is //Home//Sai, and the second parameter is Krishna. That obviously won't work.

    Enclose the parameters in quotes:

    os.system("pdftotext '%s' '%s'" % (input1, output))