from urllib.request import urlopen
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from io import StringIO
from io import open
def readPDF(pdfFile):
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
retstr = StringIO()
laparams = LAParams()
device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, laparams=laparams)
process_pdf(rsrcmgr, device, pdfFile)
device.close()
content = retstr.getvalue()
retstr.close()
return
content
pdfFile = urlopen(
"http://pythonscraping.com/pages/warandpeace/chapter1.pdf"
)
outputString = readPDF(pdfFile)
print
(outputString)
pdfFile.close()