import sys

fp = open(sys.argv[1], 'rb')
from python-pdfminer3k.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument
from python-pdfminer3k.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter
from python-pdfminer3k.converter import PDFPageAggregator
from python-pdfminer3k.layout import LAParams, LTTextBox, LTTextLine

parser = PDFParser(fp)
doc = PDFDocument()
parser.set_document(doc)
doc.set_parser(parser)
doc.initialize('')
rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
laparams = LAParams()
laparams.char_margin = 1.0
laparams.word_margin = 1.0
device = PDFPageAggregator(rsrcmgr, laparams=laparams)
interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device)
extracted_text = ''

for page in doc.get_pages():
    interpreter.process_page(page)
    layout = device.get_result()
    for lt_obj in layout:
        if isinstance(lt_obj, LTTextBox) or isinstance(lt_obj, LTTextLine):
            #extracted_text += lt_obj.get_text()
            with open('pdftest.csv', 'w') as csvfile:
                csvwriter = csv.writer(csvfile, delimiter=' ', quotechar='|', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL)
                csvwriter.writerow(lt_obj.get_text())