Help needed with formatting text from PDF

Robot Framework
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Yes you so have to write some Python code as bridge between Robot Framework and this library.

The following Python code can be used as a simple library to convert a PDF to text:

import pymupdf

def pdf_to_text(pdf_file):     
    """"
    Extracts text from the PDF file and returns the result.
    """
    text = ""
    doc = pymupdf.open(pdf_file) # open a document
    for page in doc: # iterate the document pages
        text = text + page.get_text()
    return text  # return the result

Just create a file named for instance pdf_to_text.py with the above code. Then in your Robot Framework file include this library like

*** Settings ***
Library         "..path_to_your_libraries.."/pdf_to_text.py

After this you can use the keyword Pdf To Text with as argument the location to the PDF document.

${pdf_text} Pdf To Text ${my_pdf_file}

Also don’t forget to first install PyMuPDF library.
In the documentation and here is example code how to deal with some specific situations.

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