Use a PDF text extraction library such as PyPDF2, pdfplumber, or PyMuPDF
Open the PDF file in your program
Read each page from the PDF
Extract text from each page
Combine the extracted text into one string or save it to a file
If the PDF is scanned, use OCR software such as Tesseract
Convert PDF pages to images before applying OCR if needed
Check the extracted text for formatting issues or missing content
Export the text to TXT, CSV, or another desired format