Read Pdf Object From S3

I am trying to create a lambda function that will access a pdf form uploaded to s3 and strip out the data entered into the form and send it elsewhere. I am able to do this when I c

Solution 1:

Solved:

This does the trick:

import boto3
fromPyPDF2 importPdfFileReaderfrom io importBytesIO

bucket_name ="pdf-forms-bucket"
item_name = "form.pdf"


s3 = boto3.resource('s3')
obj = s3.Object(bucket_name, item_name)
fs = obj.get()['Body'].read()
pdf = PdfFileReader(BytesIO(fs))

data = pdf.getFormTextFields()