Successful implimentation of tqdm progress bar in pdfplumber.

[LeeSugden]

Hi, has anyone successfully implimented a tqdm progress bar with the progress out extract from a .pdf, For instance i would like my progress bar to add 1% when it has done 1/100 pages. I would find this super useful as i regularly have documents with thousands of pages and struggle to see where at in the process my code is. Until it reaches the next step then i can print("it was successful"). Python3.

I currently use the following method:

for page in pdf.pages:
    print(page.extract_text())

However i was unsure how to impliment tqdm without a for loop which is in the tqdm documentation.

So i tried the following code however it doesnt seem to do anything progress bar wise.

with pdfplumber.open(path) as pdf:
    for i in tqdm(range(len(pdf.pages))):
        print(pdf.pages[i].extract_text())

Any help of example code of it work that i can adjust and ammend accordingly would be really helpful.

[samkit-jain]

Hi @LeeSugden Appreciate your interest in the library. I tried with a different approach and it works fine. Here it is

from tqdm import tqdm
import pdfplumber

def progress_bar_test():
	pdf = pdfplumber.open("file.pdf")
	pbar = tqdm(total=len(pdf.pages))

	for page in pdf.pages:
		text = page.extract_text()
		pbar.update(1)

	pbar.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
	progress_bar_test()

The final output was

$ python main.py 
100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████| 8/8 [00:02<00:00,  3.49it/s]

It goes from 1 to the number of pages but you can easily configure it if you want to go from 10 to 100.