I'm trying to come up with a nice feature for my work colleagues, that every day in the morning, we would get in Slack the menu of the day... inspired by https://github.com/lemedege/LunchBot/blob/main/run.py But I'm struggling to read the text from this PDF https://torvekoekken.dk/Files/Files/Branding RAPIDO/01 KBH menu/29_Søborg_Favorit_ENG 2025 ny.pdf I saved it as favorite.pdf here is a simple test: from PyPDF2 import PdfReader name = "favorite" doc = PdfReader(name+'.pdf') print(f"PDF {name} opened, with {len(doc.pages)} pages") page = doc.pages[0] print(f" text ->{page.extract_text()}<-") """ prints: PDF favorite opened, with 5 pages text -><- """ and it's not because of the first page, all pages outputs empty content for page in doc: print(f" PDF contains this text ->{page.extract_text()}<-") ### prints: PDF favorite opened, with 5 pages PDF contains this text -><- PDF contains this text -><- PDF contains this text -><- PDF contains this text -><- ### I even tried with pymupdf as well at no avail what am I missing? is it because of the text font they are using? Continue reading...
