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# Read PDFs

### Extracting text

```python
import PyPDF2

pdfFile = open('file.pdf', 'rb')
pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFile)
pageObj = pdfReader.getPage(i)
page = pageObj.extractText()
```

### Number of pages

```python
page_num = pdfReader.getNumPages()
```