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Xenophobic Xenomorph answered on September 8, 2023 Popularity 9/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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# Requires Python 3.6 or higher due to f-strings
 
# Import libraries
import platform
from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory
from pathlib import Path
 
import pytesseract
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
from PIL import Image
 
if platform.system() == "Windows":
    # We may need to do some additional downloading and setup...
    # Windows needs a PyTesseract Download
    # https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki/Downloading-Tesseract-OCR-Engine
 
    pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = (
        r"C:\Program Files\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe"
    )
 
    # Windows also needs poppler_exe
    path_to_poppler_exe = Path(r"C:\.....")
     
    # Put our output files in a sane place...
    out_directory = Path(r"~\Desktop").expanduser()
else:
    out_directory = Path("~").expanduser()    
 
# Path of the Input pdf
PDF_file = Path(r"d.pdf")
 
# Store all the pages of the PDF in a variable
image_file_list = []
 
text_file = out_directory / Path("out_text.txt")
 
def main():
    ''' Main execution point of the program'''
    with TemporaryDirectory() as tempdir:
        # Create a temporary directory to hold our temporary images.
 
        """
        Part #1 : Converting PDF to images
        """
 
        if platform.system() == "Windows":
            pdf_pages = convert_from_path(
                PDF_file, 500, poppler_path=path_to_poppler_exe
            )
        else:
            pdf_pages = convert_from_path(PDF_file, 500)
        # Read in the PDF file at 500 DPI
 
        # Iterate through all the pages stored above
        for page_enumeration, page in enumerate(pdf_pages, start=1):
            # enumerate() "counts" the pages for us.
 
            # Create a file name to store the image
            filename = f"{tempdir}\page_{page_enumeration:03}.jpg"
 
            # Declaring filename for each page of PDF as JPG
            # For each page, filename will be:
            # PDF page 1 -> page_001.jpg
            # PDF page 2 -> page_002.jpg
            # PDF page 3 -> page_003.jpg
            # ....
            # PDF page n -> page_00n.jpg
 
            # Save the image of the page in system
            page.save(filename, "JPEG")
            image_file_list.append(filename)
 
        """
        Part #2 - Recognizing text from the images using OCR
        """
 
        with open(text_file, "a") as output_file:
            # Open the file in append mode so that
            # All contents of all images are added to the same file
 
            # Iterate from 1 to total number of pages
            for image_file in image_file_list:
 
                # Set filename to recognize text from
                # Again, these files will be:
                # page_1.jpg
                # page_2.jpg
                # ....
                # page_n.jpg
 
                # Recognize the text as string in image using pytesserct
                text = str(((pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(image_file)))))
 
                # The recognized text is stored in variable text
                # Any string processing may be applied on text
                # Here, basic formatting has been done:
                # In many PDFs, at line ending, if a word can't
                # be written fully, a 'hyphen' is added.
                # The rest of the word is written in the next line
                # Eg: This is a sample text this word here GeeksF-
                # orGeeks is half on first line, remaining on next.
                # To remove this, we replace every '-\n' to ''.
                text = text.replace("-\n", "")
 
                # Finally, write the processed text to the file.
                output_file.write(text)
 
            # At the end of the with .. output_file block
            # the file is closed after writing all the text.
        # At the end of the with .. tempdir block, the
        # TemporaryDirectory() we're using gets removed!       
    # End of main function!
     
if __name__ == "__main__":
      # We only want to run this if it's directly executed!
    main()

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import pytesseract
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
import glob

pdfs = glob.glob(r"/content/RECURRENCE RELATIONS.pdf")

for pdf_path in pdfs:
    pages = convert_from_path(pdf_path, 500)

    for pageNum,imgBlob in enumerate(pages):
        text = pytesseract.image_to_string(imgBlob,lang='eng')

        with open(f'{pdf_path[:-4]}_page{pageNum}.txt', 'w') as the_file:
            the_file.write(text)

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