PDF to txt python3 - pdf

Question

I'm trying to convert pdf file to txt.
`
import re
import PyPDF2
with open('123.pdf', 'rb') as pdfFileObj:
pdfreader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
x = pdfreader.numPages
pageObj = pdfreader.getPage(x + 1)
text = pageObj.extractText()
file1 = open(f"C:\\Users\\honorr\\Desktop\\ssssssss\{re.sub('pdf$','txt',pdfFileObj)}", "a")
file1.writelines(text)
file1.close()
Errors:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\honorr\Desktop\ssssssss\main.py", line 5, in <module>
pageobj = pdfreader.getPage(x + 1)
File "C:\Users\honorr\Desktop\ssssssss\venv\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\_reader.py", line 477, in getPage
return self._get_page(pageNumber)
File "C:\Users\honorr\Desktop\ssssssss\venv\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\_reader.py", line 492, in _get_page
return self.flattened_pages[page_number]
IndexError: list index out of range
`
How to fix it?
So i don't know why i have this errors. Maybe somebody tell me another way to convert from PDF to TXT?

Answer 1

You're setting x to the number of pages, but then trying to get page x + 1, which doesn't exist. Depending on how the library is implemented (I'm not familiar with PyPDF2), you may need to try pdfreader.getPage(x) or pdfreader.getPage(x - 1) to get it to work. This will only get the last page in the document though.