Read and extract text from pdf

[Rene Pijlman]

Julien ARNOUX:
>I have a problem :), I just want to extract text from pdf file with
>python. There is differents libraries for that but it doesn't work...
>
>pyPdf and  pdfTools, I don't know why but it doesn't works with some
>pdf...

Text can be represented in different ways in PDF: as tagged text, bitmap
and vector images, and even algorithms (IIRC). Most tools will only be
able to retrieve text represented as tagged text. So some tools may work
on some texts in some files and fail on others.

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