pdf_to_text.py (#608)

* Program to convert pdfs to text files

Supports command line input
text file does not have to be specified if user just wants to see the text

Signed-off-by: jooossshhhh <[email protected]>

* fixed format

Signed-off-by: jooossshhhh <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: jooossshhhh <[email protected]>

Docs_Format_conversion_Scripts/pdf_to_text/README.md

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+# PDF to Text Converter
+
+This tool will take a PDF file as input and output the text from the PDF into a text file. The PDF text is also printed in stdout.
+
+## Requirements
+-[PyPDF2](https://pypi.org/project/PyPDF2/)
+
+## Usage
+
+### Convert PDF to Text file
+```bash
+python3 pdf_to_text.py -p <PATH TO PDF> -o <PATH FOR OUTPUT TEXT>
+```
+
+e.g.
+```bash
+python3 pdf_to_text.py - p /home/username/Documents/sample.pdf -o /home/username/Documents/sample.txt
+```

Docs_Format_conversion_Scripts/pdf_to_text/pdf_to_text.py

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+import PyPDF2
+import argparse
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+            description = ' A program to convert PDF to Text'
+                )
+parser.add_argument(
+        '-p',
+        '--path',
+        type=str,
+        help='The full path of the PDf to convert',
+        required = True
+        )
+parser.add_argument(
+            '-o',
+            '--output',
+            type=str,
+            help='Output text file name. If not specified the text will just be printed out',
+            required=False
+)
+
+args = parser.parse_args()
+path = args.path
+text_file = args.output
+
+
+#read example pdf in binary mode
+pdfFileObj = open(path,'rb')
+
+#create reader object
+pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
+
+#get number of pages for the pdf
+pages = pdfReader.numPages
+
+pdfText = []
+#extract text from pdf file and append it to list obj
+for page_num in range(pages):
+    pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(page_num)
+    #text from pdf and other strings to make it look cleaner on the output
+    text = pageObj.extractText() + '\n\nPage ' + str(page_num + 1) + '\n' + '*' * 80 + '\n'
+    pdfText.append(text)
+    print(text)
+if text_file:
+    #write each obj from the list to text doc    
+    with open(text_file,'w', encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        for page in pdfText:
+            f.write(page)
+#close pdf object
+pdfFileObj.close()
+

Docs_Format_conversion_Scripts/pdf_to_text/requirements.txt

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+PyPDF2