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+from io import StringIO
+from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
+from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
+from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
+from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage
+import os
+import sys, getopt
+
+#converts pdf, returns its text content as a string
+#from https://www.binpress.com/tutorial/manipulating-pdfs-with-python/167
+def convert(fname, pages=None):
+    if not pages:
+        pagenums = set()
+    else:
+        pagenums = set(pages)
+
+    output = StringIO()
+    manager = PDFResourceManager()
+    converter = TextConverter(manager, output, laparams=LAParams())
+    interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(manager, converter)
+
+    infile = open(fname, 'rb')
+    for page in PDFPage.get_pages(infile, pagenums):
+        interpreter.process_page(page)
+    infile.close()
+    converter.close()
+    text = output.getvalue()
+    output.close
+    return text 
+   
+#converts all pdfs in directory pdfDir, saves all resulting txt files to txtdir
+def convertMultiple(pdfDir, txtDir):
+    if pdfDir == "": pdfDir = os.getcwd() + "\\" #if no pdfDir passed in 
+    for pdf in os.listdir(pdfDir): #iterate through pdfs in pdf directory
+        fileExtension = pdf.split(".")[-1]
+        if fileExtension == "pdf":
+            pdfFilename = pdfDir + pdf 
+            text = convert(pdfFilename) #get string of text content of pdf
+            textFilename = txtDir + pdf + ".txt"
+            textFile = open(textFilename, "w") #make text file
+            textFile.write(text) #write text to text file
+
+
+#i : info
+#p : pdfDir
+#t = txtDir
+def main(argv):
+    pdfDir = ""
+    txtDir = ""
+    try:
+        opts, args = getopt.getopt(argv,"ip:t:")
+    except getopt.GetoptError:
+        print("pdfToT.py -p <pdfdirectory> -t <textdirectory>")
+        sys.exit(2)
+    for opt, arg in opts:
+        if opt == "-i":
+            print("pdfToT.py -p <pdfdirectory> -t <textdirectory>")
+            sys.exit()
+        elif opt == "-p":
+            pdfDir = arg
+        elif opt == "-t":
+            txtDir = arg
+    convertMultiple(pdfDir, txtDir)
+    
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main(sys.argv[1:])
+    
+        
+
+