added function to read from pdf

backend/utils/utils.py

@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 import string
 import hashlib
 import  random
+import os
+from PyPDF2 import PdfReader
+
+FILE_NAME = 'manjil.pdf'
+FILE_PATH = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), FILE_NAME)
 
 def random_string_generator(string_length: int) -> str:
     letters = string.ascii_letters
@@ -9,3 +14,14 @@ def random_string_generator(string_length: int) -> str:
 
 def hash_string(string_value: str) ->str:
     return hashlib.sha256(string_value.encode('utf-8')).hexdigest()
+
+def read_pdf_human_readable(file_path: str) -> list[str]:
+    pdf_page_text_contents: list = []
+    reader: PdfReader = PdfReader(file_path)
+    for i, page in enumerate(reader.pages):
+        text: str = page.extract_text()
+        if text:
+            pdf_page_text_contents.append(text.strip())
+    return pdf_page_text_contents
+
+