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And this video, we're going to load a PDF file in Python and extract its text.

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So we're going to get the text as a Python string to do this.

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We're going to use the P Y M U PDF library that one.

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Once that's a library is is told, you imported as import fits.

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So that is p y you the f then you say with its that's open.

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So we use a with context manager.

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Students, that PDF, this is a file that I have fear in my report, you can get this by following this

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report.

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The URL is here, as always.

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And these girls as file.

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So we create this file object.

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Using that file path, you decides what you want to do for each page of that file object.

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So for page in file, or if you want to give this a more meaningful name, you could see as PDF full

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page in PDF that makes more sense.

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You want to print the page, get texts, methods you call, get texts and I'm running this.

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It's probably installed, but I did a typo here.

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So fits.

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Yeah.

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Important run, and we got some hot foods.

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So these are all the pages, if I open students, those PDF and we can cross-check.

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Yeah, it's saucier.

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So students, app ideas, general student recommendations and so on.

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So as you can see, of course, we cannot have the phones also in our Python stream because the Python

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string is just a plain string is just text, so the font will get lost.

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The formatting will get lost, and that's a downside.

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But again, we are extracting texts, information not style here.

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Now, of course, you can do different things with this text now, for example, if you want to just

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separate the pages in the council here.

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You could just see 20 times this character to make 20 instances of vets.

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Dash, just a visibly see no.

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Yeah.

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So we first print those characters 20 of them, then the contents of a page and then another set of

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those characters.

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Then this is a second page, as you see here.

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We have multiple pages, for example, for example.

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And so one.

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You can also decide to print only the first page.

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You could do PDF zero.

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So that is the first page.

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Get text.

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So Page one is equal to that's a new print.

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Page one, so that is only one, you need only one particular page so that to give you the contents

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of the first page only.

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In other words, we stored the text of a first page in this page one string.

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If you want to have one single variable holding all the text of all the pages again, you'd go back

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to the for loop.

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So here and then full page in PDF, first you create an empty string, texts you consume, that's empty

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string.

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And then we remove that.

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And instead of printing, we see text a sequel to that plus texts actually text plus VAT.

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So first we start with an empty string.

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We add that to the empty string.

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So in the first loop, we're going to get the first page only.

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And then on top of that first page contents, we add the next page contents.

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So we concatenate all the strings and then you can do whatever you want with the final variable text.

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Run.

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Yeah, we get basically the same old woods with multiple pages.

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And that is how you extract text from a PDF.

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In the next video, we're going to do some more advanced operations with PDFs, so see you.