read_pdf.py

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from io import StringIO


def pdf_to_txt(pdf_file_path):
    with open(pdf_file_path, "rb") as pdf_file:
        output = StringIO()
        resource_manager = PDFResourceManager()
        laparams = LAParams()
        text_converter = TextConverter(resource_manager, output, laparams=laparams)
        page_interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(resource_manager, text_converter)

        for i_page in PDFPage.get_pages(pdf_file):
            page_interpreter.process_page(i_page)

        output_text = output.getvalue()
        output.close()
        text_converter.close()

    return "".join(output_text.splitlines())