Extracting and merging PDFs via Pypdf2

Question

I am a little stuck. I am trying to merge and extract the text from all the PDF files in a working directory. Then I would like to store the data in a CSV form to run additional analysis on it. However I keep getting a PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: EOF marker not found error. I have checked the resources however I am still struggling.

import PyPDF2
import os
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader

merger = PdfFileMerger()
for filename in os.listdir():
    with open(filename,"rb") as source:
        tmp = PdfFileReader(source)
        merger.append(tmp)

tmp.write('tmp.csv', 'wb')
tmp.close()

Answer 1

Actually there's some small mistake in your code, you are creating tmp variable inside the loop but using it outside for writing to csv . And also, as per my knowledge you don't need to create with open and then create a PdfFileReader object for merging. Try to use this simple approach for merging multiple pdf-files :

import PyPDF2
import os
from PyPDF2 import PdfFileMerger, PdfFileReader

merger = PdfFileMerger()

for pdffile in os.listdir():
    merger.append(pdffile)

merger.write('tmp.csv')
merger.close()