title: Python read pdf in sections
body: <p>I'm trying to read a pdf file where each page is divided into 3x3 blocks of information of the form</p>
  
  <pre><code>A | B | C
  D | E | F
  G | H | I
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Each of the entries is broken into multiple lines. A simplified example of one entry is <a href="http://spookyshobbyshop.com/TEMPLATE%20si%20sp%20baseball%20card%201979%20EX.JPG" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this card</a>. But then there would be similar cards in the other 8 slots. 
  I'd like to be able to read A, then B, then C…; however, I could survive if I read the first line of the A, B, and C, and then the second line of A, B, and C, etc. I've looked at pdfminer and pypdf, but I haven't seen anything to fit what I'm looking for. The answer <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15737806/extract-text-using-pdfminer-and-pypdf2-merges-columns">here</a> works fairly well, but the order of<br>
  columns routinely gets distorted.</p>