Extract first two lines of PDF with Python and pyPDF
<p>I'm using python 2.7 and pyPDF to get the title meta info from PDF files. Unfortunately not all of PDF have the meta info. What I want to do now is grab the first two line of text from a PDF. Using what I have now how can I modify the code to capture the first two lines with pyPDF?</p>

<pre><code>from pyPdf import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import os

for fileName in os.listdir('.'):
    try:
        if fileName.lower()[-3:] != "pdf": continue
        input1 = PdfFileReader(file(fileName, "rb"))

        # print the title of document1.pdf
        print fileName, input1.getDocumentInfo().title
    except:
        print ",", 
</code></pre>

<pre><code>from PyPDF2 import PdfFileWriter, PdfFileReader
import os
import StringIO

fileName = "HMM.pdf"
try:
        if fileName.lower()[-3:] == "pdf": 
            input1 = PdfFileReader(file(fileName, "rb"))

            # print the title of document1.pdf
            #print fileName, input1.getDocumentInfo().title

            content = input1.getPage(0).extractText()
            buf = StringIO.StringIO(content)
            buf.readline()
            buf.readline()

except:
        print ",", 
</code></pre>

<p>My pwd contains this "HMM.pdf" file and this code is working on python 2.7  properly. </p>

python python-2.7 pypdf