Converting PDF to text: “Text extraction is not allowed”

I am trying to convert PDF to text in Python. But it is giving me an error:

PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed: Text extraction is not allowed: <_io.BufferedReader name='C:UsersDownloadsFacts_for_2017.pdf'>

Code which I am using is:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    retstr = io.StringIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)

        data = retstr.getvalue()



    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    text = pdfparser(Input_path)

Can anyone help me?

File path is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RyR-J-EwMywL6BqsYbl4Ocm96VzCYrM7/view?usp=sharing

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

Be carefull, you are not closing your fp

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 16:37

Thanks, but it is still not working.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 16:41

Possibly same issue as this issue, where PDF is marked to not allow extraction: stackoverflow.com/questions/39981980/…

– bdk
Jan 2 at 18:01

add a comment |

I am trying to convert PDF to text in Python. But it is giving me an error:

PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed: Text extraction is not allowed: <_io.BufferedReader name='C:UsersDownloadsFacts_for_2017.pdf'>

Code which I am using is:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    retstr = io.StringIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)

        data = retstr.getvalue()



    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    text = pdfparser(Input_path)

Can anyone help me?

File path is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RyR-J-EwMywL6BqsYbl4Ocm96VzCYrM7/view?usp=sharing

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

Be carefull, you are not closing your fp

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 16:37

Thanks, but it is still not working.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 16:41

Possibly same issue as this issue, where PDF is marked to not allow extraction: stackoverflow.com/questions/39981980/…

– bdk
Jan 2 at 18:01

add a comment |

I am trying to convert PDF to text in Python. But it is giving me an error:

PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed: Text extraction is not allowed: <_io.BufferedReader name='C:UsersDownloadsFacts_for_2017.pdf'>

Code which I am using is:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    retstr = io.StringIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)

        data = retstr.getvalue()



    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    text = pdfparser(Input_path)

Can anyone help me?

File path is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RyR-J-EwMywL6BqsYbl4Ocm96VzCYrM7/view?usp=sharing

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

I am trying to convert PDF to text in Python. But it is giving me an error:

PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed: Text extraction is not allowed: <_io.BufferedReader name='C:UsersDownloadsFacts_for_2017.pdf'>

Code which I am using is:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    retstr = io.StringIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)

        data = retstr.getvalue()



    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    text = pdfparser(Input_path)

Can anyone help me?

File path is:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RyR-J-EwMywL6BqsYbl4Ocm96VzCYrM7/view?usp=sharing

python python-3.x pdfminer

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

edited Jan 2 at 17:31

Craicerjack

3,78422030

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

asked Jan 2 at 16:31

Nishant Tripathi

Be carefull, you are not closing your fp

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 16:37

Thanks, but it is still not working.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 16:41

Possibly same issue as this issue, where PDF is marked to not allow extraction: stackoverflow.com/questions/39981980/…

– bdk
Jan 2 at 18:01

add a comment |

Be carefull, you are not closing your fp

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 16:37

Thanks, but it is still not working.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 16:41

Possibly same issue as this issue, where PDF is marked to not allow extraction: stackoverflow.com/questions/39981980/…

– bdk
Jan 2 at 18:01

Be carefull, you are not closing your fp

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 16:37

Thanks, but it is still not working.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 16:41

Possibly same issue as this issue, where PDF is marked to not allow extraction: stackoverflow.com/questions/39981980/…

– bdk
Jan 2 at 18:01

add a comment |

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You are getting the error because, the indentation is wrong in the line with data = retstr.getvalue(), it should be outside of the for loop.

However, after fixing that, I came across some other issues , so I am providing the full code below:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    # retstr = io.StringIO() #This will cause -- `TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'`

    retstr = io.BytesIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)



    data = retstr.getvalue() #Indentation was worng here

    fp.close()

    #print(data)

    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    #PDF file you provied is encrypted with blank password, we need to decrypt it

    path = sys.argv[1]

    from subprocess import call

    import os

    pdf_filename = os.path.basename(path)

    file_name, extension = os.path.splitext(pdf_filename)

    pdf_filename_decr = str(file_name) + "_decr" + extension

    call('qpdf --password=%s --decrypt %s %s' %('', path, pdf_filename_decr), shell=True)



    text = pdfparser(pdf_filename_decr)

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

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You are getting the error because, the indentation is wrong in the line with data = retstr.getvalue(), it should be outside of the for loop.

However, after fixing that, I came across some other issues , so I am providing the full code below:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    # retstr = io.StringIO() #This will cause -- `TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'`

    retstr = io.BytesIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)



    data = retstr.getvalue() #Indentation was worng here

    fp.close()

    #print(data)

    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    #PDF file you provied is encrypted with blank password, we need to decrypt it

    path = sys.argv[1]

    from subprocess import call

    import os

    pdf_filename = os.path.basename(path)

    file_name, extension = os.path.splitext(pdf_filename)

    pdf_filename_decr = str(file_name) + "_decr" + extension

    call('qpdf --password=%s --decrypt %s %s' %('', path, pdf_filename_decr), shell=True)



    text = pdfparser(pdf_filename_decr)

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

add a comment |

You are getting the error because, the indentation is wrong in the line with data = retstr.getvalue(), it should be outside of the for loop.

However, after fixing that, I came across some other issues , so I am providing the full code below:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    # retstr = io.StringIO() #This will cause -- `TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'`

    retstr = io.BytesIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)



    data = retstr.getvalue() #Indentation was worng here

    fp.close()

    #print(data)

    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    #PDF file you provied is encrypted with blank password, we need to decrypt it

    path = sys.argv[1]

    from subprocess import call

    import os

    pdf_filename = os.path.basename(path)

    file_name, extension = os.path.splitext(pdf_filename)

    pdf_filename_decr = str(file_name) + "_decr" + extension

    call('qpdf --password=%s --decrypt %s %s' %('', path, pdf_filename_decr), shell=True)



    text = pdfparser(pdf_filename_decr)

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

add a comment |

You are getting the error because, the indentation is wrong in the line with data = retstr.getvalue(), it should be outside of the for loop.

However, after fixing that, I came across some other issues , so I am providing the full code below:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    # retstr = io.StringIO() #This will cause -- `TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'`

    retstr = io.BytesIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)



    data = retstr.getvalue() #Indentation was worng here

    fp.close()

    #print(data)

    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    #PDF file you provied is encrypted with blank password, we need to decrypt it

    path = sys.argv[1]

    from subprocess import call

    import os

    pdf_filename = os.path.basename(path)

    file_name, extension = os.path.splitext(pdf_filename)

    pdf_filename_decr = str(file_name) + "_decr" + extension

    call('qpdf --password=%s --decrypt %s %s' %('', path, pdf_filename_decr), shell=True)



    text = pdfparser(pdf_filename_decr)

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

You are getting the error because, the indentation is wrong in the line with data = retstr.getvalue(), it should be outside of the for loop.

However, after fixing that, I came across some other issues , so I am providing the full code below:

import sys

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter

from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter

from pdfminer.layout import LAParams

import io    





def pdfparser(data):

    fp = open(data, 'rb')      

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()

    # retstr = io.StringIO() #This will cause -- `TypeError: unicode argument expected, got 'str'`

    retstr = io.BytesIO()

    codec = 'utf-8'

    laparams = LAParams()

    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)



    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp):

        interpreter.process_page(page)



    data = retstr.getvalue() #Indentation was worng here

    fp.close()

    #print(data)

    return data





if __name__ == '__main__':

    #PDF file you provied is encrypted with blank password, we need to decrypt it

    path = sys.argv[1]

    from subprocess import call

    import os

    pdf_filename = os.path.basename(path)

    file_name, extension = os.path.splitext(pdf_filename)

    pdf_filename_decr = str(file_name) + "_decr" + extension

    call('qpdf --password=%s --decrypt %s %s' %('', path, pdf_filename_decr), shell=True)



    text = pdfparser(pdf_filename_decr)

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

edited Jan 2 at 18:30

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

answered Jan 2 at 18:18

SDX

113

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

add a comment |

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

This indentation was introduced by someone who has edited the code. There was not any indentation before !

– BlueSheepToken
Jan 2 at 18:55

Thanks for the response. I want to ask where pdf_filename_decr will save? When I run this program, it gives FileNotFound error.

– Nishant Tripathi
Jan 2 at 19:08

It will save in the current working directory.

– SDX
Jan 2 at 19:14

add a comment |

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