Errors with PyPdf

[flebber]

On Sep 27, 9:38 am, "w.g.sned... at gmail.com" <w.g.sned... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sep 26, 7:10 pm, flebber <flebber.c... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was trying to use Pypdf following a recipe from the Activestate
> > cookbooks. However I cannot get it too work. Unsure if it is me or it
> > is beacuse sets are deprecated.
>
> > I have placed a pdf in my C:\ drive. it is called "Components-of-Dot-
> > NET.pdf" You could use anything I was just testing with it.
>
> > I was using the last script on that page that was most recently
> > updated. I am using python 2.6.
>
> >http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465-pure-python-pdf-to-text-co...
>
> > import pyPdf
>
> > def getPDFContent(path):
> >     content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf"
> >     # Load PDF into pyPDF
> >     pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb"))
> >     # Iterate pages
> >     for i in range(0, pdf.getNumPages()):
> >         # Extract text from page and add to content
> >         content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
> >     # Collapse whitespace
> >     content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
> >     return content
>
> > print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii",
> > "ignore")
>
> > This is my error.
>
> > Warning (from warnings module):
> >   File "C:\Documents and Settings\Family\Application Data\Python
> > \Python26\site-packages\pyPdf\pdf.py", line 52
> >     from sets import ImmutableSet
> > DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated
>
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 15, in <module>
> >     print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii",
> > "ignore")
> >   File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 6, in getPDFContent
> >     pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb"))
>
> ---> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Components-of-Dot-> NET.pdf'
>
> Looks like a issue with finding the file.
> how do you pass the path?

okay thanks I thought that when I set content here

def getPDFContent(path):
    content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf"

that i was defining where it is.

but yeah I updated script to below and it works. That is the contents
are displayed to the interpreter. How do I output to a .txt file?

import pyPdf

def getPDFContent(path):
    content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf"
    # Load PDF into pyPDF
    pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb"))
    # Iterate pages
    for i in range(0, pdf.getNumPages()):
        # Extract text from page and add to content
        content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
    # Collapse whitespace
    content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
    return content

print getPDFContent(r"C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii",
"ignore")