PDF Operations

Search text in many PDF files using Python

Learn to search for specific text in multiple PDF files using Python. This recipe explains how to set the directory path, read PDF files, and search for text within them. It shows how to print filenames and page numbers where the text appears and how to notify if no matches are found, streamlining text search in PDFs.

Required packages

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ipython>=8.26.0

pypdf>=4.1.0

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Python code

# Python code will be here

Code explanation

  1. Set the directory path.
  2. Declare lists and a counter.
  3. Read PDFs from the given directory.
  4. Search for the given text.
  5. Hand the case when the given text is not found.

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