pip install pdfminer

pdf2txt.py <path_to_pdf_file>

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser
from pdfminer.pdfdocument import PDFDocument
from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage, PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed
from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from pdfminer.converter import PDFPageAggregator
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
import StringIO


class PDFUtils():

  def __init__(self):
    pass

  def pdf2txt(self, path):
    output = StringIO.StringIO()
    with open(path, 'rb') as f:
      praser = PDFParser(f)

      doc = PDFDocument(praser)

      if not doc.is_extractable:
        raise PDFTextExtractionNotAllowed

      pdfrm = PDFResourceManager()

      laparams = LAParams()

      device = PDFPageAggregator(pdfrm, laparams=laparams)

      interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(pdfrm, device)

      for page in PDFPage.create_pages(doc):
        interpreter.process_page(page)
        layout = device.get_result()
        for x in layout:
          if hasattr(x, "get_text"):
            content = x.get_text()
            output.write(content)

    content = output.getvalue()
    output.close()
    return content


if __name__ == '__main__':
  path = u'/tmp/abc.pdf'
  pdf_utils = PDFUtils()
  print pdf_utils.pdf2txt(path)