Script used to extract all PDF file titles (from a conference) and put them into a txt file, which can be used to generate word cloud

get_all_pdf_titles.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

from pdfrw import PdfReader
import glob

fobj = open('alltitles.txt', 'w')   # output file 
allpdf = glob.glob('./*.pdf')       # assuming all PDF files in current dir 
for fname in allpdf:
    ipdf = PdfReader(fname)
    title = ipdf.Info.get('/Title')

    print 'file  = ' + fname
    print 'title = ' + title
    fobj.write(title[1:-1] + ' ')   # in my case title has "()"
    # import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace()

fobj.close()