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read text from a pdffile python

# importing required modules 
import PyPDF2 
    
# creating a pdf file object 
pdfFileObj = open('example.pdf', 'rb') 
    
# creating a pdf reader object 
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj) 
    
# printing number of pages in pdf file 
print(pdfReader.numPages) 
    
# creating a page object 
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(0) 
    
# extracting text from page 
print(pageObj.extractText()) 
    
# closing the pdf file object 
pdfFileObj.close()