On Sep 27, 9:38 am, "w.g.sned...@gmail.com" <w.g.sned...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sep 26, 7:10 pm, flebber <flebber.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I was trying to use Pypdf following a recipe from the Activestate > > cookbooks. However I cannot get it too work. Unsure if it is me or it > > is beacuse sets are deprecated. > > > I have placed a pdf in my C:\ drive. it is called "Components-of-Dot- > > NET.pdf" You could use anything I was just testing with it. > > > I was using the last script on that page that was most recently > > updated. I am using python 2.6. > > >http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465-pure-python-pdf-to-text-co... > > > import pyPdf > > > def getPDFContent(path): > > content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf" > > # 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" > > # Collapse whitespace > > content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split()) > > return content > > > print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii", > > "ignore") > > > This is my error. > > > Warning (from warnings module): > > File "C:\Documents and Settings\Family\Application Data\Python > > \Python26\site-packages\pyPdf\pdf.py", line 52 > > from sets import ImmutableSet > > DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated > > > Traceback (most recent call last): > > File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 15, in <module> > > print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii", > > "ignore") > > File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 6, in getPDFContent > > pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb")) > > ---> IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Components-of-Dot-> > NET.pdf' > > Looks like a issue with finding the file. > how do you pass the path?
okay thanks I thought that when I set content here def getPDFContent(path): content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf" that i was defining where it is. but yeah I updated script to below and it works. That is the contents are displayed to the interpreter. How do I output to a .txt file? import pyPdf def getPDFContent(path): content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf" # 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" # Collapse whitespace content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split()) return content print getPDFContent(r"C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii", "ignore") -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list