use pdfminer to extract pdf

convert_pdf.py

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter, XMLConverter, HTMLConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
from io import BytesIO

def convert_pdf(path, format='text', codec='utf-8', password=''):
    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    retstr = BytesIO()
    laparams = LAParams()
    if format == 'text':
        device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
    elif format == 'html':
        device = HTMLConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
    elif format == 'xml':
        device = XMLConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)
    else:
        raise ValueError('provide format, either text, html or xml!')
    fp = open(path, 'rb')
    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
    maxpages = 0
    caching = True
    pagenos=set()
    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp, pagenos, maxpages=maxpages, password=password,caching=caching, check_extractable=True):
        interpreter.process_page(page)

    text = retstr.getvalue().decode()
    fp.close()
    device.close()
    retstr.close()
    return text

We need to add the last line:


After which we get this:

using crutches we can fix it this way: