Extracting Text from Multiple PDF Files with Python and PyPDF2

Extracting text from PDF files can be a time-consuming and tedious task, especially when you have to work with multiple files. Fortunately, there are tools and libraries available that can automate this process, and PyPDF2 is one such library that can be used with Python to extract text from PDF files. In this article, we will explain the code that uses PyPDF2 to extract text from multiple PDF files in a directory.

The first thing that the code does is to import the required libraries — os and PyPDF2. os library provides a way to interact with the operating system, while PyPDF2 is a Python library for working with PDF files.

import os
import PyPDF2

Next, the code sets the working directory to the directory containing the PDF files that need to be processed. The os.getcwd() function returns the current working directory, and this value is stored in the pdf_dir variable.

pdf_dir = os.getcwd()

The code then loops through all the files in the directory using the os.listdir() function. If the file has a ".pdf" extension, the code proceeds to extract text from it.

for filename in os.listdir(pdf_dir):
    if filename.endswith('.pdf'):

Inside the loop, the PDF file is opened in binary mode using the open() function. The os.path.join() function is used to create the file path by joining the directory path and the file name. The 'rb' mode is used to read the file…