[python] How can I read pdf in python?

How can I read pdf in python? I know one way of converting it to text, but I want to read the content directly from pdf.

Can anyone explain which module in python is best for pdf extraction

You can use textract module in python

Textract

for install

pip install textract

for read pdf

import textract
text = textract.process('path/to/pdf/file', method='pdfminer')

For detail Textract

Try PyPDF2.

There is a good tutorial here: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter13/

You can USE PyPDF2 package

#install pyDF2
pip install PyPDF2

# importing all the required modules
import PyPDF2

# creating an object 
file = open('example.pdf', 'rb')

# creating a pdf reader object
fileReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(file)

# print the number of pages in pdf file
print(fileReader.numPages)

Follow this Documentation http://pythonhosted.org/PyPDF2/