PDFMINER no spaces between words

pdfminer_run.py

#https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49457443/python-pdfminer-converts-pdf-file-into-one-chunk-of-string-with-no-spaces-betwee
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#According to this thread some pdfs mark the entire text as figure and by default PDFMiner doesn't try to perform layout analysis for figure text. To override this behavior the all_texts parameter needs to be set to True.
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import io

import pdfminer
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage

# Perform layout analysis for all text
laparams = pdfminer.layout.LAParams()
setattr(laparams, 'all_texts', True)

def extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
    resource_manager = PDFResourceManager()
    fake_file_handle = io.StringIO()
    converter = TextConverter(resource_manager, fake_file_handle, laparams=laparams)
    page_interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(resource_manager, converter)

    with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as fh:
        for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fh, 
                                      caching=True,
                                      check_extractable=True):
            page_interpreter.process_page(page)

        text = fake_file_handle.getvalue()

    # close open handles
    converter.close()
    fake_file_handle.close()

    if text:
        return text


text = extract_text_from_pdf('test.pdf')