pypdf2_text_extraction_and_pdf_merging_quickstart.py

1from PyPDF2 import PdfReader, PdfWriter
2
3# Extracting text from a PDF
4reader = PdfReader("example.pdf")
5page = reader.pages[0]
6print(page.extract_text())
7
8# Merging PDFs or creating a new PDF
9writer = PdfWriter()
10
11# Add a page from the reader to the writer
12writer.add_page(page)
13
14# Save the resulting PDF to a file
15with open("smaller-copy.pdf", "wb") as fp:
16    writer.write(fp)