important that you install this version because future versions of pypdf may be incompatible with the code to install itrun pip install --user pypdf =from the command line this module name is case sensitiveso make sure the is lowercase and everything else is uppercase (check out appendix for full details about installing third-party modules if the module was installed correctlyrunning import pypdf in the interactive shell shouldn' display any errors the proble atic pdf form at while pdf files are great for laying out text in way that' easy for people to print and readthey're not straightforward for software to parse into plaintext as resultpypdf might make mistakes when extracting text from pdf and may even be unable to open some pdfs at all there isn' much you can do about thisunfortunately pypdf may simply be unable to work with some of your particular pdf files that saidi haven' found any pdf files so far that can' be opened with pypdf extracting text from pdfs pypdf does not have way to extract imageschartsor other media from pdf documentsbut it can extract text and return it as python string to start learning how pypdf workswe'll use it on the example pdf shown in figure - figure - the pdf page that we will be extracting text from