diff --git a/publishing/extract_text.py b/publishing/extract_text.py
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+from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text
+
+text = extract_text('article.pdf')
+with open('article.pdf','rb') as f:
+    text = extract_text(f)
+    print(text)