This quick tutorial guides you on how to read PDF content in Python. It introduces all the resources, necessary classes, and methods to be used in the application. It also contains a runnable sample code to read pdf using python with the help of a very few lines of code only without using any other third-party tool.

Steps to Read PDF with Python

1. Set the IDE to use Aspose.PDF for Python via .NET to read PDF text
2. Load the source PDF file using the Document object whose data is to be read
3. Instantiate a TextAbsorber object to extract text from the PDF
4. Call the accept() method to read the entire text in the loaded PDF file
5. Display the extracted text using the Text property of the TextAbsorber object

These steps summarize the process to read a PDF file in Python by introducing the Document class to load the PDF file, the TextAbsorber class object to fetch text from the PDF, and the accept() method that actually fills the text property of the TextAbsorber object. Once the accept() method is called, the string data in the text property can be printed or parsed for any further processing.

Code to Read PDF File in Python

The above code segment demonstrates the process to extract data from PDF file using Python. The TextAbsorber class supports the TextFormattingMode to extract text in pure, raw, flattened, or memory-saving mode. Moreover, the TextAbsorber class returns an errors list while fetching the data from the PDF and supports defining a rectangle within which text is fetched from the Pdf page.

This article has taught us to read a PDF in Python. If you want to learn the process to read bookmarks from a PDF, refer to the article on how to read bookmarks in Pdf using Python.