From cb9900b49706e96df520dbd1067c2a57a4cdb20d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeremy Singer-Vine Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 18:45:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Have .extract_text(chars, ...) ret. "" if no chars ... instead of returning `None`. --- pdfplumber/utils.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/pdfplumber/utils.py b/pdfplumber/utils.py index d55b863..6088200 100644 --- a/pdfplumber/utils.py +++ b/pdfplumber/utils.py @@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ def extract_text( ): chars = to_list(chars) if len(chars) == 0: - return None + return "" doctop_clusters = cluster_objects(chars, "doctop", y_tolerance)