I am trying to convert many pdf files into txt. My pdf files are organized in subdirectories within a directory. So I have three layers: directory --> subdirectories --> multiple pdf files in each subdirectory. I am using the following code which is giving me this error ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 3). The code works when I convert files in a single directory but not in multiple subdirectories. It might be quite simple but I cannot get my head around it. Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks. import pytesseract from pdf2image import convert_from_path import glob pdfs = glob.glob(r"K:\pdf_files") for pdf_path, dirs, files in pdfs: for file in files: convert_from_path(os.path.join(pdf_path, file), 500) for pageNum,imgBlob in enumerate(pages): text = pytesseract.image_to_string(imgBlob,lang='eng') with open(f'{pdf_path}.txt', 'a') as the_file: the_file.write(text) Continue reading...
