Not reading the pdf file

[drnko]

Bug report

Whenever I'm converting an image to PDF and trying to extract the text from the converted PDF, the result from PDFplumber is blank.

What I'm doing wrong?

Step 1:

• Converting an image(jpeg/jpg/png) to PDF using the PIL
• Saving the converted pdf file.

Step 2:

• Open converted/saved pdf using pdfplumber.open()
• Extracting text from the loaded/opened pdf file

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Below is the code:

image_1 = Image.open(r'D:\ocr\images\barrel.jpg') im_1 = image_1.convert('RGB') im_1.save(r'test.pdf')

inv_pdf = pdfplumber.open('test.pdf') print('Result:' , inv_pdf.pages[0].extract_text())

=============================================================== Terminal:

PS D:\ocr> & "C:/Program Files/Python310/python.exe" d:/ocr/testing.py Result:

PS D:\GitOCR\ocr>

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Below are the files converted PDF files from image file:

test.pdf

test1.pdf

test2.pdf

[pettzilla1]

It’s probably worth reporting this on pdfumbers GitHub, this is pdfminer.six

[drnko]

Oh! Sorry

[jcallaha]

pdfplumber doesn’t do OCR (optical character recognition) - what you have done is just create a PDF with an image and no text. If you are starting with an image and want the “text” on the image you should look at Tesseract or services like AWS Textract. Good luck!