from pypdf import PdfWriter, PdfReader
import os

pdfs = [] 

for filename in os.listdir(os.getcwd()):
    pdfs.append(filename)

# merger = PdfWriter()
text = []

for pdf in pdfs:
    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)