Fixed extractText()-Not returning text with spaces

[inboxsgk]

Previously the function .extractText() reads the text in the PDF and returns without any spaces.
In this fix the pdf.py file has been modified to add " " (space) in between two words

Here is an example below:-
Original Sentence : "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

Previous Output : "Thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydog"

Output After fix : "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"

[MartinThoma]

Thank you for the contribution! I'm sorry that it took so long - I try to be quicker in future 🤞

[Viennoiserie]

Could you please show in which directory can be found the pyPDF2 source file containing the " extractText() " method please ?

[MartinThoma]

It's in _page.py

[Viennoiserie]

I just found in "PyPDF2" files (outside of the pycache folder) the -page.py ... problem is it only has 1000 or so linges whereas the ones modified on ghit have about 3000 of those ... maybe I don't have the right file or version (yet I installed the package yesterday :/)

[Viennoiserie]

_page.py *

[Viennoiserie]

I just modified my " _page.py " file and copy pasted the one on git here... still not working, if you don't mind of course, could you tell me where might be the problem

[pubpub-zz]

@Viennoiserie / @inboxsgk ,
can you provide a example of PDF file where you are getting the issue for analysis

[Viennoiserie]

TEST.pdf

I am trying to make a function (for my webapp) that can append all the words contained in the pdf into an array. The app then finds the words asked by the user... so I went onto word : wrote text that would be " hard " for python to work with and the results aren't the ones I wanted:

I expect: ['Thomas', 'Vienot', 'CACA', 'Partie']

but I get: ['Thomas', 'VienotCACA', 'Partie']

[Viennoiserie]

If you want I can also provide you my code (nothing to complex but I think it should work):

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader

def pdf_to_words(file_name):

pdf_obj = open(file_name + '.pdf', 'rb')
pdf_array = []
word_array = []
    
pdf_reader = PdfFileReader(pdf_obj)   
nb_page = pdf_reader.numPages
    
for i in range(nb_page):
        
       pdf_array.append(pdf_reader.getPage(i).extractText())
       
pdf_obj.close()

for i in range(len(pdf_array)):
    
    word = ""
    
    for j in range(len(pdf_array[i])):
        
        if(ord(pdf_array[i][j]) not in range(0,65) and ord(pdf_array[i][j]) not in range(91,97) and ord(pdf_array[i][j]) not in range(123,128)):
            
            word += pdf_array[i][j]
            
        else:
            if(word != ""):
                word_array.append(word)
                
            word = ""
            
return(word_array)

def main():

file_name = "TEST"
# file_name = "VIENOT_Thomas"

word_array = pdf_to_words(file_name)

print(word_array)

if name == "main":

main()

[pubpub-zz]

@Viennoiserie,
The issue is not within PyPDF2.
If you just run extract_text on your PDF you get :
' Thomas \n \n Vienot CACA\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n '
There seems to be lots of empty lines, but I've checked they are part of your way
I would propose you this solution:
[x for x in "".join( [ x if x.isalnum() else " " for x in PyPDF2.PdfReader("TEST(3).pdf").pages[0].extractText().replace("\n","")] ) .split(" ') if x!=""]

[Viennoiserie]

Thank you, indeed, I have tried my program on other PDFs and there was no problem :/
Sorry for bothering !