📄 PDF2Text

A simple Python desktop application built with Tkinter that allows users to select a PDF file and extract text from its first page.

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Project Structure

PDF2Text/
│
├── assets/
│   └── logo.png
│   └── test1.pdf
│   └── test2.pdf
│   └── ui_1.png
│   └── ui_2.png
├── app.py
├── README.md
└── requirements.txt

Features

• Browse and select PDF files.
• Extract text from the first page of a PDF.
• Display extracted text inside the application.
• Simple and beginner-friendly GUI built with Tkinter.

Technologies Used

• Python 3
• Tkinter
• PyPDF2
• Pillow (PIL)

How to Use

1. Launch the application.
2. Click the Browse button.
3. Select a PDF file from your computer.
4. The application extracts the text from the first page.
5. The extracted text is displayed in the text box.

Current Limitations

• Extracts text only from the first page.
• Works only with text-based PDFs.
• Does not support scanned/image PDFs (OCR).

Future Improvements

• Extract text from all pages.
• Save extracted text as a .txt file.
• Support OCR for scanned PDFs.
• Improve the UI design.
• Add drag-and-drop support.
• Display page count and file information.

Tutorial Reference

This project was created by following the tutorial below while learning Python GUI development:

Link: https://youtu.be/itRLRfuL_PQ?si=0leKBh-uJgXLQtd8

👨‍💻 Author

Ayush Jhade

GitHub: https://github.com/ayushjhade