What is PyPDF2 package?

What is PyPDF2 package?

PyPDF2 is a pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging together, cropping, and transforming the pages of PDF files. It can also add custom data, viewing options, and passwords to PDF files. It can retrieve text and metadata from PDFs as well as merge entire files together.

How do I read a PDF in PyPDF2?

Reading Local PDF Files

  1. import PyPDF2 sample_pdf = open(r’C:\Datasets\sample.pdf’, mode=’rb’) pdfdoc = PyPDF2.
  2. pdfdoc.
  3. {‘/Creator’: ‘Rave (http://www.nevrona.com/rave)’, ‘/Producer’: ‘Nevrona Designs’, ‘/CreationDate’: ‘D:20060301072826’}
  4. pdfdoc.
  5. page_one= pdfdoc.
  6. for i in range(pdfdoc.

Where is PyPDF2 installed?

type cd C:\Users\User\Downloads\pyPDF2 to go into the directory where the setup.py is (this is mine if I downloaded it) The path can be copied from the explorer window.

How do you use PIP?

You use pip with an install command followed by the name of the package you want to install. pip looks for the package in PyPI, calculates its dependencies, and installs them to ensure requests will work. Notice that you use python -m to update pip . The -m switch tells Python to run a module as an executable.

Can Python read a PDF?

It can retrieve text and metadata from PDFs as well as merge entire files together. Tabula-py is a simple Python wrapper of tabula-java, which can read the table of PDF. You can read tables from PDF and convert into pandas’ DataFrame. tabula-py also enables you to convert a PDF file into CSV/TSV/JSON file.

What is the use of PyPDF2 module in Python illustrate its usage with the suitable code?

PyPDF2: It is a python library used for performing major tasks on PDF files such as extracting the document-specific information, merging the PDF files, splitting the pages of a PDF file, adding watermarks to a file, encrypting and decrypting the PDF files, etc. We will use the PyPDF2 library in this tutorial.

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