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      "Number of pages: 1039\n",
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    "    # Create a PdfReader object\n",
    "    reader = PdfReader(pdf_path)\n",
    "\n",
    "    # Initialize an empty string to store extracted text\n",
    "    extracted_text = \"\"\n",
    "\n",
    "    # Last page of the first 50 questions = page 19, thus zero index = 20\n",
    "    last_page_first_50_questions = 20\n",
    "    first_page_first_50_answers = 20\n",
    "    last_page_first_50_answers = 53\n",
    "    answer_phrase = \"Solution to Question\"\n",
    "\n",
    "    # Loop through each page and extract text\n",
    "    print(f\"Number of pages: {len(reader.pages)}\")\n",
    "    pages = []\n",
    "    page_answers = []\n",
    "    for page_number in range(first_page_first_50_answers, last_page_first_50_answers):\n",
    "        page = reader.pages[page_number]\n",
    "        pages.append(page)\n",
    "        \n",
    "        page_answers.append([answer for answer in page.extract_text().split(\"\\n\") if answer_phrase in answer])\n",
    "        # extracted_text += page.extract_text() + \"\\n\"  # Add a newline for readability\n",
    "\n",
    "    # Print or process the extracted text\n",
    "    print(len(pages))\n",
    "    answers = [item for sublist in page_answers for item in sublist]\n",
    "\n",
    "except FileNotFoundError:\n",
    "    print(f\"Error: The file '{pdf_path}' was not found.\")\n",
    "except Exception as e:\n",
    "    print(f\"An error occurred: {e}\")"
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