How to use pdfbox's PDFTextStripper class in Python.

jpype_pdf_text_stripper.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""
How to use pdfbox's PDFTextStripper class in Python.
"""

import pathlib
import pkg_resources
import re
import urllib.request

import appdirs
import jpype
import jpype.imports
import numpy as np

# Replace with path to pdfbox jar file:
a = appdirs.AppDirs('python-pdfbox')
cache_dir = pathlib.Path(a.user_cache_dir)
file_list = list(cache_dir.glob('pdfbox-app-*.jar'))
def f(s):
    v = re.search('pdfbox-app-([\w\.\-]+)\.jar', s.name).group(1)
    return pkg_resources.parse_version(v)
jpype.addClassPath(sorted(file_list, key=f)[-1])

if not jpype.isJVMStarted():
    jpype.startJVM(jpype.getDefaultJVMPath(), '-Djava.awt.headless=true', convertStrings=False)
from java.awt.image import BufferedImage
from java.io import File
from org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel import PDDocument
from org.apache.pdfbox.text import PDFTextStripper

def extract_text(in_file):
    """
    Extract text of PDF file.

    Parameters
    ----------
    in_file : str
        Path to input PDF file.

    Returns
    -------
    text : str
        Extracted text.
    """

    doc = PDDocument.load(File(in_file))
    pdf_text_stripper = PDFTextStripper()
    text = pdf_text_stripper.getText(doc)
    return str(text)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import os
    import tempfile
    import urllib

    # Download sample multipage PDF:
    data = urllib.request.urlopen('https://researchtorevenue.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/1r41ai10801601_fong.pdf').read()
    fd, name = tempfile.mkstemp()
    f = open(name, 'wb')
    f.write(data)
    f.close()
    result = extract_text(name)
    os.unlink(name)

@lebedov Thank you again. You nailed it !!! The file was corrupted I downloaded it again and it's working now. Thank you !!!

Nice example, almost looks easier than using the CLI!