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[QUOTE="flebber, post: 4135487"]
I was trying to use Pypdf following a recipe from the Activestate
cookbooks. However I cannot get it too work. Unsure if it is me or it
is beacuse sets are deprecated.

I have placed a pdf in my C:\ drive. it is called "Components-of-Dot-
NET.pdf" You could use anything I was just testing with it.

I was using the last script on that page that was most recently
updated. I am using python 2.6.

[URL]http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465-pure-python-pdf-to-text-converter/[/URL]

import pyPdf

def getPDFContent(path):
    content = "C:\Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf"
    # Load PDF into pyPDF
    pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb"))
    # Iterate pages
    for i in range(0, pdf.getNumPages()):
        # Extract text from page and add to content
        content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
    # Collapse whitespace
    content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
    return content

print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii",
"ignore")

This is my error.

Warning (from warnings module):
  File "C:\Documents and Settings\Family\Application Data\Python
\Python26\site-packages\pyPdf\pdf.py", line 52
    from sets import ImmutableSet
DeprecationWarning: the sets module is deprecated

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 15, in <module>
    print getPDFContent("Components-of-Dot-NET.pdf").encode("ascii",
"ignore")
  File "C:/Python26/Pdfread", line 6, in getPDFContent
    pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(file(path, "rb"))
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Components-of-Dot-
NET.pdf'
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