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Extract Text from PDF Document with Python REST API

This short tutorial shows how to PDF Python developers can extract text from a PDF document using the Aspose PDF Cloud REST API. You’ll learn to pull text out of a PDF file with the Python SDK and see a complete example that reads and displays the PDF content. For more details about the PDF format, visit the PDF file info page.

Prerequisite

Steps to Extract PDF Text with Python Low Code API

  1. Configure the PdfApi by providing your application key and SID to access the PDF file.
  2. Upload the source PDF file to the cloud storage for text extraction.
  3. Call the GetText() method after the file has been uploaded successfully.
  4. Define the rectangular area on each page from which the text should be retrieved.
  5. Iterate through the text occurrences returned by the API and display the extracted text.

These steps describe how to read PDF text with the Python RESTful service. Load the PDF into Aspose Cloud storage, invoke GetText() to obtain all text occurrences from every page within the specified rectangle, then loop through the response to show page numbers and the corresponding text.

Code to Grab Text from PDF with Python REST Interface

The sample demonstrates how to retrieve text from a PDF using the Python REST interface. The rectangle is defined by the lower‑left (x, y) and upper‑right (x, y) coordinates that bound the area you want to extract. If you need text from a single page only, use the GetPageText() method, which requires an additional page‑number argument.

This article shows how to read a PDF without installing any local PDF reader. To count words in a PDF, see the related guide on Count words in PDF document with Python REST API.

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