Unable to read bullets

[bonsonsm]

Hello,
I am converting a pdf file into a text file. In the extracted text file, I am not getting the bullet where ever any text starts with a bullet point.
I need to know when a bullet exists to be able to do some post processing. However, when I am getting the extracted text it is without the bullet point.

Below is my code:

def extractTextFromPDF(strDownloadDirectory, fileName, txtFilePath):
        filePathName = strDownloadDirectory + fileName
        pdfFileObj = open(filePathName, 'rb')
        pdfReader = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(pdfFileObj)
        intPages = pdfReader.getNumPages()
        print(intPages)
        strText = ''
        print(fileName)
        fileName =fileName[0:len(fileName)-4]
        txtFilePath = txtFilePath +fileName  + '.txt'
        target_file = open(txtFilePath, "w" , encoding='utf-8')
        for i in range(0,intPages):
            objPDFObj = pdfReader.getPage(i)
            strText =  objPDFObj.extractText().rstrip()
            strText = " ".join(strText.replace(u"\xa0", " ").strip().split())
            print(strText)
        target_file.write(strText)
        target_file.close()

[Bahramgithub]

First check pdf encoding- if it is in Ansi or extended ascii- you will need to look for &#149 encoding for bullet point. Sometimes bullet points are represented by other especial characters. In that case you might have an extended list for bullet points. check for especial characters not existing in basic ascii by string.isascii() method.

[MartinThoma]

With #924 we can now also extract bullets. The release will be today (PyPDF2==2.1.0)