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Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:59:29 -0800
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Subject: Re: Reading Adobe PDF File
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On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Shrewd Investor <cltung@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a very large Adobe PDF file. =C2=A0I was hoping to use a script to
> extract the information for it. =C2=A0Is there a way to loop through a PD=
F
> file using Python?

Haven't used it myself, but:
http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/

> Or do I need to find a way to convert a PDF file into a text file? =C2=A0=
If
> so how?

The pdf2txt.py script from the same package happens to do exactly this.

Cheers,
Chris