Slate in Python stumbles on foothills
Question: Trying to parse PDFs into text and have been trying to start with Slate.

However, just following the basic example posted everywhere, I get the
following:

    
    
    >>> import slate
    >>> with open('pytest.PDF') as fp:
    ...     doc = slate.PDF(fp)
    ... 
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 2, in <module>
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 52, in __init__
    self.append(self.interpreter.process_page(page))
      File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 36, in process_page
    self.device.outfp.buf = ''
    AttributeError: 'cStringIO.StringO' object has no attribute 'buf'
    

Any ideas?


Answer: This can be fixed by changing line 36 where the error occurred to read:

    
    
    self.device.outfp.truncate(0)
    

