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+import re
+import unicodedata
+
+import fitz  # type: ignore
+from loguru import logger
+
+from open_notebook.graphs.content_processing.state import SourceState
+
+# todo: find tables - https://pymupdf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/the-basics.html#extracting-tables-from-a-page
+# todo: what else can we do to make the text more readable?
+# todo: try to fix encoding for some PDF that is still breaking
+# def _extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
+#     doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
+#     text = ""
+#     logger.debug(f"Found {len(doc)} pages in PDF")
+#     for page in doc:
+#         # Use encode/decode if you need to clean up any encoding issues
+#         text += page.get_text().encode('utf-8').decode('utf-8')
+#     doc.close()
+#     return text
+
+SUPPORTED_FITZ_TYPES = [
+    "application/pdf",
+    "application/epub+zip",
+]
+
+
+def clean_pdf_text(text):
+    """
+    Clean text extracted from PDFs with enhanced space handling.
+    Preserves special characters like (, ), %, = that are valid in code/math.
+
+    Args:
+        text (str): The raw text extracted from a PDF
+    Returns:
+        str: Cleaned text with minimal necessary spacing
+    """
+    if not text:
+        return text
+
+    # Step 1: Normalize Unicode characters
+    text = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text)
+
+    # Step 2: Replace common PDF artifacts
+    replacements = {
+        # Common ligatures
+        "fi": "fi",
+        "fl": "fl",
+        "ff": "ff",
+        "ffi": "ffi",
+        "ffl": "ffl",
+        # Quotation marks and apostrophes
+        """: "'", """: "'",
+        '"': '"',
+        "′": "'",
+        "‚": ",",
+        "„": '"',
+        # Dashes and hyphens
+        "‒": "-",
+        "–": "-",
+        "—": "-",
+        "―": "-",
+        # Other common replacements
+        "…": "...",
+        "•": "*",
+        "°": " degrees ",
+        "¹": "1",
+        "²": "2",
+        "³": "3",
+        "©": "(c)",
+        "®": "(R)",
+        "™": "(TM)",
+    }
+    for old, new in replacements.items():
+        text = text.replace(old, new)
+
+    # Step 3: Clean control characters while preserving essential whitespace and special chars
+    text = "".join(
+        char
+        for char in text
+        if unicodedata.category(char)[0] != "C"
+        or char in "\n\t "
+        or char in "()%=[]{}#$@!?.,;:+-*/^<>&|~"
+    )
+
+    # Step 4: Enhanced space cleaning
+    text = re.sub(r"[ \t]+", " ", text)  # Consolidate horizontal whitespace
+    text = re.sub(r" +\n", "\n", text)  # Remove spaces before newlines
+    text = re.sub(r"\n +", "\n", text)  # Remove spaces after newlines
+    text = re.sub(r"\n\t+", "\n", text)  # Remove tabs at start of lines
+    text = re.sub(r"\t+\n", "\n", text)  # Remove tabs at end of lines
+    text = re.sub(r"\t+", " ", text)  # Replace tabs with single space
+
+    # Step 5: Remove empty lines while preserving paragraph structure
+    text = re.sub(r"\n{3,}", "\n\n", text)  # Max two consecutive newlines
+    text = re.sub(r"^\s+", "", text)  # Remove leading whitespace
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+$", "", text)  # Remove trailing whitespace
+
+    # Step 6: Clean up around punctuation
+    text = re.sub(r"\s+([.,;:!?)])", r"\1", text)  # Remove spaces before punctuation
+    text = re.sub(r"(\()\s+", r"\1", text)  # Remove spaces after opening parenthesis
+    text = re.sub(
+        r"\s+([.,])\s+", r"\1 ", text
+    )  # Ensure single space after periods and commas
+
+    # Step 7: Remove zero-width and invisible characters
+    text = re.sub(r"[\u200b\u200c\u200d\ufeff\u200e\u200f]", "", text)
+
+    # Step 8: Fix hyphenation and line breaks
+    text = re.sub(
+        r"(?<=\w)-\s*\n\s*(?=\w)", "", text
+    )  # Remove hyphenation at line breaks
+
+    return text.strip()
+
+
+def _extract_text_from_pdf(pdf_path):
+    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
+    try:
+        text = ""
+        logger.debug(f"Found {len(doc)} pages in PDF")
+        for page in doc:
+            text += page.get_text()
+        normalized_text = clean_pdf_text(text)
+        return normalized_text
+    finally:
+        doc.close()
+
+
+def extract_pdf(state: SourceState):
+    """
+    Parse the text file and print its content.
+    """
+    return_dict = {}
+    assert state.get("file_path"), "No file path provided"
+    assert state.get("identified_type") in SUPPORTED_FITZ_TYPES, "Unsupported File Type"
+    if (
+        state.get("file_path") is not None
+        and state.get("identified_type") in SUPPORTED_FITZ_TYPES
+    ):
+        file_path = state.get("file_path")
+        try:
+            text = _extract_text_from_pdf(file_path)
+            return_dict["content"] = text
+        except FileNotFoundError:
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"File not found at {file_path}")
+        except Exception as e:
+            raise Exception(f"An error occurred: {e}")
+
+    return return_dict