python encoding for turkish characters

Question

I have to read pdf books that are turkish stories. I found a library which is called pyPdf. My test function whichis the below doesn't encode correctly. I think, I need to have turkish codec packet. Am i wrong ? if i am wrong how can I solve this problem orelse how can I find this turkish codec packet?

from StringIO import StringIO
import pyPdf,os
def getPDFContent(path):
 content = ""
 num_pages = 10
 p = file(path, "rb")
 pdf = pyPdf.PdfFileReader(p)
 for i in range(0, num_pages):
 content += pdf.getPage(i).extractText() + "\n"
 content = " ".join(content.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split()) 
 return content
if __name__ == '__main__':
 pdfContent = StringIO(getPDFContent(os.path.abspath("adiaylin-aysekulin.pdf")).encode("utf-8", "ignore"))
 for line in pdfContent:
 print line.strip()
 input("Press Enter to continue...")

• hinzir: What did you want to say ? Can you explain me ?

Answer 1

What kind of error / unexpected output are you getting specifically?

According to the pyPdf homepage, pyPdf is no longer maintained. But there is a fork called PyPDF2 (GitHub) that promises to "handle a wider range of input PDF instances".

Maybe upgrading to PyPDF2 solves your problem, I suggest you try that first.

• hinzir: I solved the problem in a different way. Before I have converted pdf to text and then i read the the text file.