import fitz import sys doc = fitz.open(r'C:\git\spark-lesson\reference\sources\ufn-2000-paper.pdf') output = [] for i in range(len(doc)): text = doc[i].get_text() if text.strip(): output.append(f'=== PAGE {i+1} ===') output.append(text) full = '\n'.join(output) with open(r'C:\git\spark-lesson\reference\sources\ufn-2000-paper.txt', 'w', encoding='utf-8') as f: f.write(full) print(f'Extracted {len(full)} chars from {len(doc)} pages')