[Python] Extract text from PDF File using Python with PyPDF2

I want to extract text from a given PDF.

The code used is:

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
def extract_information(pdf_path):
with open(pdf_path, 'rb') as f:
pdf = PdfFileReader(f)
number_of_pages = pdf.getNumPages()
for pages in range(number_of_pages):
page=pdf.getPage(pages)
page_content=page.extractText()
print(page_content)


if __name__ == '__main__':
path = 'test.pdf'
extract_information(path)


but when I run the above code I get the following output:

PS E:\Omkar\Coding\Python\pdfSearch> python .\scrape.py
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;FM:0@HC$:FDDG$HU$%%/%?
V>%?W*%JPJ?++ A&3#=%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D%(+,(>(?X:ED@@G$0FM:E9DQ!Y=V?,,W>J/P/*,/H!Z#-X:ED@@G$0FM:E9DR#Y-$0C@S-$+*)%+)%..* A&3#-$*/>,,J(?*>F3$M!1#$@'-X:ED@@G$0FM:E9D$
E551#BB-(*?$M9CE;:[;RI$ET9$%S
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I think this has to be something related to the encoding used in the PDF but I am not able to understand this.

link to the pdf used

Thank you in advance.

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