PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: Creating EncodedStreamObject is not currently supported

[ghost]

My task is to find and replace the text in pdf, I used pyPDF2 package to replace the text, but when I try to replace I'm receiving an error like

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\practice_python\sample.py", line 41, in <module>
    page.getContents().setData(replaced_text)
  File "C:\Users\Win\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\generic.py", line 852, in setData
    raise utils.PdfReadError("Creating EncodedStreamObject is not currently supported")
PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: Creating EncodedStreamObject is not currently supported

and my code is

from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader, PdfFileWriter

replacements = [
    ("HARIHARAN S", "<your name>")
]

pdf = PdfFileReader(open("samplenda.pdf", "rb"))
writer = PdfFileWriter() 

for page in pdf.pages:
    contents = page.getContents().getData()
    print(type(contents))
    for (a,b) in replacements:
        replaced_text = contents.replace(bytes(a,'utf-8'), bytes(b,'utf-8'))  # .encode('utf-8')
    print(type(replaced_text))
    page.getContents().setData(replaced_text)
    writer.addPage(page)
    
with open("modified.pdf", "wb") as f:
     writer.write(f)

I tried lots of way many times, please help me to solve this error

[pubpub-zz]

I've produced a PR to introduce set_data() into EncodedStreamObject() however not that get_contents() returns a ContentStream Object which where data is processed through operations(). If you want to get content as EncodedStreamObject, you have to access ["/Contents"] data, holding the possible array decomposition.

[SpastBanana]

Hi,

Is there any update on this? I got the same error as @ghost

[stefan6419846]

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