from pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader
import os
import threading

def pdfthread(pdf):
    pdfs = [] 
    # merger = PdfWriter()
    text = []
    if str(pdf).__contains__(".pdf"):
        reader = PdfReader(pdf)
        # for making a big pdf, not really necessary
        # merger.append(pdf)
        # instead we want to make it into text
        print("working on pdf: " + str(pdf))
        pages = reader.pages
        for page in pages:
            text.append(page.extract_text())
    print(text)
threads = []
threadcount = 0

for filename in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
    if(str(filename).__contains__(".pdf")):
        threadcount += 1
        threads.append(threading.Thread(target=pdfthread, args=filename))

for i in range(0, threadcount - 1):
    threads[i].start
    threads[i].join()

for i in range(0, threadcount - 1):