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Distinct Dragonfly answered on August 29, 2021 Popularity 7/10 Helpfulness 1/10

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import docx2txt  # for extracting text from .docx files
import PyPDF2    # for extracting text from PDF files
import textract  # for extracting text from other file formats

def extract_text_from_file(file_path):
    file_extension = file_path.split('.')[-1].lower()

    if file_extension == 'docx':
        text = docx2txt.process(file_path)
    elif file_extension == 'pdf':
        with open(file_path, 'rb') as file:
            pdf_reader = PyPDF2.PdfReader(file)
            text = ''
            for page in pdf_reader.pages:
                text += page.extract_text()
    else:
        text = textract.process(file_path).decode('utf-8')

    return text

# Example usage:
file_path = 'path/to/your/file.docx'  # Replace with your file path
extracted_text = extract_text_from_file(file_path)
print(extracted_text)

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# pip3 install pdfplumber
import pdfplumber

# a single page
with pdfplumber.open(r'test.pdf') as pdf:
    first_page = pdf.pages[-0]
    print(first_page.extract_text())

# for every page
# with pdfplumber.open(r'test.pdf') as pdf:
#     for pages in pdf.pages:
#         print(pages.extract_text())

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# using PyMuPDF
import sys, fitz
fname = sys.argv[1]  # get document filename
doc = fitz.open(fname)  # open document
out = open(fname + ".txt", "wb")  # open text output
for page in doc:  # iterate the document pages
    text = page.get_text().encode("utf8")  # get plain text (is in UTF-8)
    out.write(text)  # write text of page
    out.write(bytes((12,)))  # write page delimiter (form feed 0x0C)
out.close()

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