How to remove footer from PDF when extracting to text

[jh67]

Try with the re.DOTALL flag

footer_pattern = re.search("(?s)^JOHN.*Confidential$", text)

Just added the (?s) and re.DOTALL and got the same result. Footer is still in the text file. Does this look correct for that flag?

with pdfplumber.open(pdfFilePath) as pdf:
    k = len(pdf.pages)
    for i in range(1, k):
        page = pdf.pages[i]
        text = (page.extract_text())
        footer_pattern = re.search("(?s)^JOHN.*Confidential$", text, re.DOTALL)

        if footer_pattern:
            text = text.replace(footer_pattern, '')

        with open(txtFilePath, 'a') as txtFile:
            txtFile.write(text)