python 3.x - How to read pdf file using pdfminer3k?

Question

I am using python 3.5 and I want to read the text, line by line from pdf files. Was trying to use pdfminer3k but not getting proper syntax anywhere. How to use it correctly?

Answer 1

I have corrected Lisa's code. It works now!

    fp = open(path, 'rb')
    from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument
    from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
    from pdfminer.converter import PDFPageAggregator
    from pdfminer.layout import LAParams, LTTextBox, LTTextLine

    parser = PDFParser(fp)
    doc = PDFDocument()
    parser.set_document(doc)
    doc.set_parser(parser)
    doc.initialize('')
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    laparams = LAParams()
    laparams.char_margin = 1.0
    laparams.word_margin = 1.0
    device = PDFPageAggregator(rsrcmgr, laparams=laparams)
    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
    extracted_text = ''

    for page in doc.get_pages():
        interpreter.process_page(page)
        layout = device.get_result()
        for lt_obj in layout:
            if isinstance(lt_obj, LTTextBox) or isinstance(lt_obj, LTTextLine):
                extracted_text += lt_obj.get_text()