Doc Formats

Quick Start: Extract Text from PDF

Need to extract text from a PDF? Use this Python snippet:

from pypdf import PdfReader

reader = PdfReader("document.pdf")
text = "".join(page.extract_text() for page in reader.pages)
print(text)

Or from the command line:

uvx --with pypdf python /path/to/extract_pdf_text.py document.pdf