Fulltext is a simple Python library for converting document and media
files to text. It's main purpose is for use with full-text indexing
systems.
https://github.com/btimby/fulltext
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/fulltext/0.1-1
For example, to easily extract text from a PDF file:
> python
> import fulltext
> fulltext.get('resume.pdf')
'Experience: ...'