How To Read PDF In Python

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PDF is one of the widely used file formats for sharing data digitally.

So reading a pdf file using python language would be more interesting.

In this tutorial we will learn how to read pdf files using python.

!pip install PyPDF2
# importing required modules
import PyPDF2
# creating a pdf file object
data = open('/content/beginner-guide-web-scraping-beautiful-soup-python.pdf', 'rb')
# creating a pdf reader object
reader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(data)
# printing number of pages in pdf file
print(reader.numPages)
8

create a page object:

# creating a page object
page=  reader.getPage(1)

extracting text:

# extracting text from page
print(page.extractText())
# closing the pdf file object
data.close()
''

Working Text File In Python

text_data= open("/content/demofile.txt", "r")
print(text_data.read())
text_data.close()
Hello! Welcome to my page please follow me!!

Working with csv file

#import libraries
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

Read Data:

data=pd.read_csv('/content/Climate.csv')

Show data:

climate change data

data.columns
Index(['Unnamed: 0', 'Tweets', 'Date', 'len', 'ID', 'Source', 'Likes', 'RTs'], dtype='object')

shape of dataset:

data.shape
(197, 8)

Summary Statistics:

data.describe()

Summary of dataset

Missing values:

data.isnull().sum()

data.isnull().sum()

Summary

So this is how you can use python to read different files. I hope you liked this article on a tutorial reading pdf file with python. Feel free to ask your valuable questions in the comments section below:).

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