Battleground 7: Bull Run

Battleground 7: Bull Run is a turn-based historical strategy game set during the American Civil War, focusing on the pivotal battles of First Manassas (Bull Run) and Second Manassas, along with side engagements like Blackburn’s Ford and Brawner’s Farm. As the fourth installment in the Battleground series, it features an isometric top-down perspective and allows players to command Union and Confederate forces in these 1861–1862 conflicts.

To extract text from the provided PDF data, we can use Python with the PyPDF2 library. Here’s the step-by-step solution:

Approach

1. Decode PDF Data: The provided PDF data is a string with escape sequences. We decode it back to raw bytes using UTF-8 and Unicode escape handling.
2. Read PDF: Use PyPDF2.PdfReader to parse the raw bytes into a PDF object.
3. Extract Text: Iterate through each page of the PDF and extract text using the extract_text() method.
4. Output Text: Combine the text from all pages and print the result.

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Explanation

1. Decoding: The PDF data string is encoded back to bytes using UTF-8 and Unicode escape handling to restore the original binary format.
2. PDF Parsing: The PyPDF2.PdfReader reads the bytes as a PDF document.
3. Text Extraction: Each page of the PDF is processed, and text is extracted using extract_text(), which handles the decoding and formatting of the PDF content.
4. Combining Text: Text from all pages is concatenated into a single string and printed.

This approach efficiently decodes and parses the PDF data to extract all readable text content, handling the necessary encoding and decoding steps automatically.