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Thursday, 7 July 2016

Python code to convert all pdf files to .txt files in a folder

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 import os

from os import chdir, getcwd, listdir, path

import pyPdf

from time import strftime


def check_path(prompt):

    ''' (str) -> str

    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.

    '''

    abs_path = raw_input(prompt)

    while path.exists(abs_path) != True:

        print "\nThe specified path does not exist.\n"

        abs_path = raw_input(prompt)

    return abs_path   

   

print "\n"


folder = check_path("Provide absolute path for the folder: ")


list=[]

directory=folder

for root,dirs,files in os.walk(directory):

    for filename in files:

        if filename.endswith('.pdf'):

            t=os.path.join(directory,filename)

            list.append(t)


m=len(list)

i=0

while i<=len(list):

    path=list[i]

    head,tail=os.path.split(path)

    var="\\"

   

    tail=tail.replace(".pdf",".txt")

    name=head+var+tail

   

   

    

    content = ""

    # 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"

    print strftime("%H:%M:%S"), " pdf  -> txt "

    f=open(name,'w')

    f.write(content.encode("UTF-8"))

    f.close



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  For Python version 3 users follow the code given below.
  for the code to work you have to install pypdf2
  by using  ---------->        pip install pypdf2
   
 For converting html files to text files  Click here 

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import os

from os import chdir, getcwd, listdir, path

import PyPDF2

from time import strftime


def check_path(prompt):

    ''' (str) -> str

    Verifies if the provided absolute path does exist.

    '''

    abs_path = input(prompt)

    while path.exists(abs_path) != True:

        print ("\nThe specified path does not exist.\n")

        abs_path = input(prompt)

    return abs_path   

   

print ("\n")


folder = check_path("Provide absolute path for the folder: ")


list=[]

directory=folder

for root,dirs,files in os.walk(directory):

    for filename in files:

        if filename.endswith('.pdf'):

            t=os.path.join(directory,filename)

            list.append(t)




for item in list:
    path=item

    head,tail=os.path.split(path)

    var="\\"

   

    tail=tail.replace(".pdf",".txt")

    name=head+var+tail

    

   

   

    

    content = ""

    

    pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(path, "rb")

    

    for i in range(0, pdf.getNumPages()):

        

        content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
        

    print (strftime("%H:%M:%S"), " pdf  -> txt ")

    with open(name,'a') as out:
        out.write(content
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42 comments:

  1. Unknown3 January 2017 at 10:51

    it is showing error "No module installed"

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    1. Madhur21 January 2017 at 12:23

      you need to install required modules using pip

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    2. Daelius1 February 2017 at 15:44

      What modules? can you list them?

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    3. Daelius1 February 2017 at 16:16

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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  2. Daelius1 February 2017 at 16:20

    please, contact me... I need your advice to create a script that does that on python3. brunovtf@gmail.com.
    See ya

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    1. Bijon Mathew21 February 2017 at 07:23

      I will add the python 3 version soon.By the way have you installed all the required imports mentioned at the start of the program?

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  3. dghind7 February 2017 at 02:41

    Hi, Nice program. Thanks for this. I think you for got to add and increment to "i" in the while loop which is why it is only converting the first file it gets in the given folder.

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    1. Anonymous11 April 2018 at 04:19

      Hello, Even I am facing the same issue. I am not able to iterate through all the pdf's. How it fix this?

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  4. Bijon Mathew21 February 2017 at 07:25

    guys if you require any python programs .. tell me in the comments

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    1. jeya2 April 2018 at 04:14

      i want to convert all docx and doc files to txt format ia a folder

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    2. Unknown25 April 2018 at 05:43

      Can you suggest the code to convert PDF files to html.. without using libraries.

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    3. sujay19 September 2018 at 23:00

      bro i need program to convert pdf files to xls (excel) please help me !

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  5. Unknown27 February 2017 at 08:19

    Is there a way to use this code for Python 3.6? I keep getting an error for no module named pdf

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    1. Bijon Mathew27 February 2017 at 18:50

      can you show me the screen shot of the error, by the way have you installed Pypdf module?

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    2. Bijon Mathew27 February 2017 at 20:02

      I have put the python3 version code above.

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    3. Unknown2 March 2017 at 07:52

      The python3 version code above worked perfectly. Thank you very much for the help!

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    4. Bijon Mathew3 March 2017 at 04:11

      you're welcome.

      Delete
  6. Unknown5 March 2017 at 02:07

    can you help me with convert all html files to .txt files in a folder? i try use pyhtml but it always error :'(

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    1. Bijon Mathew7 March 2017 at 02:21

      Okay ..but all codes will be in 2x version.

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    2. Bijon Mathew9 March 2017 at 21:10

      This comment has been removed by the author.

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    3. Bijon Mathew9 March 2017 at 21:15

      I have put the link above for converting html files to text files

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    4. ravi4 June 2018 at 22:21

      i want to convert html pages to pdf files

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  7. Unknown1 August 2017 at 10:05

    Hi Bijon Mathew,
    I am very new to python programming.Thanks a lot for the above program.
    I actually tried giving scan pdf file as input, as I want to convert it into text file or extract the text from the image as a text file. I only see empty text files in output.. Can you please help me to solve this using scan pdf as input.

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  8. BePositive11 August 2017 at 02:11

    HI. when i enter the path, i get the error message saying
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:/Python27/CreditConvert 2.py", line 24, in
    path=list[i]
    IndexError: list index out of range

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  9. Unknown22 August 2017 at 01:07

    hello, after i do run i found this message :
    raceback (most recent call last):
    File "E:/Python/1.py", line 5, in
    import pyPdf
    ImportError: No module named pyPdf
    >>>

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    1. Bijon Mathew22 August 2017 at 09:06

      That means you have not installed the pyPdf package. Try installing it using pip .

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  10. Anonymous25 September 2017 at 00:44

    How to convert a bunch of PDF file to csv in python?

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  11. Unknown17 December 2017 at 13:54

    hi Bijon. need help with the following code
    i have to write code where i have to connect mysql database to the buttons of the user interface so that i can retrieve the data within a required range. im using python 3.4.
    the code is as follows-
    from tkinter import *

    root = Tk()

    root .geometry("400x200")

    def retrieve_input():
    inputValue1 = textBox1.get("1.0","end-1c")
    print(inputValue1)
    inputValue2 = textBox2.get("1.0","end-1c")
    print(inputValue2)

    w1=Label(root, height=2, width=10, text='range1')
    w1.pack()

    textBox1= Text(root, height=2, width=10)
    textBox1.pack()

    w2=Label(root, height=2, width=10, text='range2')
    w2.pack()

    textBox2 = Text(root, height=2, width=10)
    textBox2.pack()

    buttonCommit=Button(root, height=1, width=10, text="ok",
    command=lambda: retrieve_input())

    buttonCommit.pack()


    mainloop()

    when i click on ok..i shud get the data.

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  12. Unknown17 December 2017 at 13:54

    hi Bijon. need help with the following code
    i have to write code where i have to connect mysql database to the buttons of the user interface so that i can retrieve the data within a required range. im using python 3.4.
    the code is as follows-
    from tkinter import *

    root = Tk()

    root .geometry("400x200")

    def retrieve_input():
    inputValue1 = textBox1.get("1.0","end-1c")
    print(inputValue1)
    inputValue2 = textBox2.get("1.0","end-1c")
    print(inputValue2)

    w1=Label(root, height=2, width=10, text='range1')
    w1.pack()

    textBox1= Text(root, height=2, width=10)
    textBox1.pack()

    w2=Label(root, height=2, width=10, text='range2')
    w2.pack()

    textBox2 = Text(root, height=2, width=10)
    textBox2.pack()

    buttonCommit=Button(root, height=1, width=10, text="ok",
    command=lambda: retrieve_input())

    buttonCommit.pack()


    mainloop()

    when i click on ok..i shud get the data.

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  13. jeya2 April 2018 at 04:10

    how to convert docx and doc file to txt in a folder

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  14. ravi4 June 2018 at 22:22

    how to convert html to pdf

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  15. Unknown11 June 2018 at 22:29

    I am getting UnicodeEncodeError how to fix it

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  16. Unknown16 September 2018 at 00:09

    Im trying to convert from .eml files to docx files, is this possible ?

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  17. GANG JUSTIN28 October 2018 at 05:40

    Provide absolute path for the folder: D:\pdf
    18:05:09 pdf -> txt
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "C:/Users/bhagyaraj/PycharmProjects/untitled1/pdftotext.py", line 65, in
    out.write(content.encode("UTF-8"))
    TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes

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  18. Reddy14 February 2019 at 10:38

    Hi Bijon,

    The Python version 3 code is running perfectly for me and am able to convert the pdf files to .txt files.
    But it is not showing/picking ‘;’ and the text after ‘;’.

    Can you please advice me on how to get the get the text values after ‘;’.

    Many thanks

    Regards,
    Reddy

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  19. Unknown2 May 2019 at 05:20


    UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\ufb01' in position 6477: character maps to

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  20. Unknown15 May 2019 at 01:38

    Hi Bijon, Thanks for the codes. I tried to convert 5 pdfs which are in my machine. I am using Python 3 and Jupyter notebook. I am a learner in python. When I run the codes for python 3 there was no error message. But I can't see any txt files. Plesae guide me. I can convert each pdfs to txt file using PyPDF2, however, I have 20 pdfs and need to extract the txt from them and then to do some text classification in that. Please let me know if you could help me in that. Thanks a lot in advance.

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  21. Unknown4 December 2019 at 23:28

    hello what is the name variable in line no 91

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  22. Unknown17 January 2020 at 17:26


    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    UnicodeEncodeError Traceback (most recent call last)
    in
    90
    91 with open(name,'a') as out:
    ---> 92 out.write(content)

    ~\Anaconda3\lib\encodings\cp1252.py in encode(self, input, final)
    17 class IncrementalEncoder(codecs.IncrementalEncoder):
    18 def encode(self, input, final=False):
    ---> 19 return codecs.charmap_encode(input,self.errors,encoding_table)[0]
    20
    21 class IncrementalDecoder(codecs.IncrementalDecoder):

    UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character '\ufb01' in position 7251: character maps to

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  23. Unknown18 February 2020 at 04:20

    i want Python code to to push all PDF data to excel files.


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  24. aRandomMoron18 March 2020 at 08:35

    Hey, hum sry 2 take ur time, i'm brain new 2 python n i reaaaaly suck.. could someone help me plz? i have this error :
    File "C:/Users/Gabriel/PycharmProjects/frompdf2mybe/Test2PDF.py", line 66

    ^
    SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while parsing

    Process finished with exit code 1

    ReplyDelete

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