PDF Text Extractor

This Python script extracts text from PDF files in a specified directory and saves the extracted text as individual .txt files.

Features

• Extracts text from multiple PDF files in a directory
• Attempts to extract the title from PDF metadata
• Removes headers and footers from extracted text
• Saves extracted text with cleaned filenames

Requirements

• Python 3.x
• PyPDF2 library

Installation

1. Clone this repository or download the pdf_scraper.py file.
2. Install the required library: pip install PyPDF2

Usage

Run the script from the command line with two arguments:

python pdf_scraper.py <input_directory> <output_directory>

• <input_directory>: The directory containing the PDF files you want to process
• <output_directory>: The directory where the extracted text files will be saved

Example: python pdf_scraper.py PDFs PDFs_scrapped

How it works

The script performs the following steps:

1. Scans the input directory for PDF files
2. For each PDF file:
   • Extracts the title from metadata or first line of text
   • Extracts text from all pages
   • Removes headers and footers
   • Saves the extracted text to a .txt file in the output directory

Limitations

• The header and footer removal assumes they are in the first and last lines of each page
• PDF files with complex layouts or embedded images may not extract perfectly

Contributing

Feel free to fork this repository and submit pull requests for any improvements or bug fixes.

License

MIT License