PDF Downloader/Reader

pdf_parser.py

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### PDF Parser/Downloader
### By Jake B - December 2019
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import os
import requests
import PyPDF2
import re

# Downloads the menu and saves it as a PDF
url = 'URL OF PDF GOES HERE'
filename = "lunch.pdf"
r = requests.get(url, allow_redirects = True)
open(filename, 'wb').write(r.content)

# Loading the file and grabbing the first page into a string
lunchList = open(filename,'rb')
read_pdf = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(lunchList)
page = read_pdf.getPage(0)
page_content = page.extractText()

# Prints the PDF's content
print(page_content)