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I have a scanned pdf file and I try to extract text from it. I tried to use pypdfocr to make ocr on it but I have error:

"could not found ghostscript in the usual place"

After searching I found this solution Linking Ghostscript to pypdfocr in Windows Platform and I tried to download GhostScript and put it in environment variable but it still has the same error.

How can I searh text in my scanned pdf file using python?

Thanks.

Edit: here is my code sample:

I am trying to convert a corpus of .pdf documents into a corpus of .txt documents using the pdfminer pdf2txt package. The process works well on most documents, but some of the PDFs are taking an exceptionally long time to convert. Some never actually seem to finish converting, and the process gets stuck. I'm trying to figure out how stop the conversion if it exceeds more than a few minutes of processing time. I can create a timer function, but how do I get pdf2txt to skip a document that is taking too long and move on to the next document?

I've included the code for my for loop here without any timer function.

I am trying to extract text from pdf using pdfminer in python 3.x. I have installed it using the following command

I am trying to extract exploitable texts from pdfs. But some pdfs like this one seem to have a specific layout because my python script cannot keep spaces.

I used the "pdf2txt.py" program which came as part of the pdfminer package in GitHub to try convert pdf file to text.As per the instruction , I ran the program by typing "python pdf2txt.py somefile.pdf" in the Mac OS terminal.The output was correctly generated and printed in the terminal itself. Now my question is this, how do I direct this output to a text file.I only know the bare basics of python and I am not able to figure out which line in the program actually prints the output and what needs to be changed to direct the same into a .txt file?

I know how to use pdfminer.six's pdf2txt.py tool in command line; however, I have many PDF files to convert to txt files and I can't just do it one-by-one in command line. I haven't found how to use this tool in actual python script. Any ideas?

I need to call the pdfminer top level python script from my python code:

Here is the link to pdfminer documentation:

https://github.com/pdfminer/pdfminer.six

The readme file shows how to call it from terminal os prompt as follows:

I have a program that converts pdfs into html and I needed to complement this program so after converting It would search for the tags PA/ and the character in front of it and save these tags and characters to a CSV file, I'm trying to do it but I can't.

Here's the code so far:

My code inputs text into the text area of the web page , line by line, how to make it insert the entire text all at once instead, is there a solution for this? because line by line takes a lot of time