new_contents: """
  Purpose:
    - Check to see if there is text on any page in a PDF file. If so, leave the 
          PDF filealone. 
      If text is not found, move the file to another directory to be OCR'd
                
  Author: Stephen Genusa
     URL: http://development.genusa.com
    Date: September 2014
             
  """
  
  import sys
  import os
  from PyPDF2 import PdfFileReader
  
  
  pdf_path = '~/PDFs'
  ocr_dir = 'For_OCR'
  
  # Build a list of the PDFs
  pdf_files = os.listdir(pdf_path)
  
  files_found = len(pdf_files)
  if files_found == 0:
      raise Exception("No files found in the PDF directory. No work to be done.")
  print "Found", files_found, "files"
  
  # for each PDF file
  for file_no in range(files_found):
      current_filename = pdf_files[file_no]
      # Make sure it's a PDF and not something else
      if current_filename.lower().find('.pdf') > -1:
          print "Checking PDF", current_filename
          found_text = False
          # Load the PDF
          pdf_input =  PdfFileReader(open(os.path.join(pdf_path,current_filename), "rb"))
          # Look through pages for text
          for page in pdf_input.pages:
              page_text = page.extractText()
              if len(page_text) > 0:
                  print "Text found in PDF", current_filename
                  found_text = True
                  break
          # If no text was found, it is a PDF with images and no OCR'd text
          #     so move it to the OCR directory
          if not found_text:
              print "Moving", current_filename
              if not os.path.exists(os.path.join(pdf_path, ocr_dir)):
                  os.mkdir(os.path.join(pdf_path, ocr_dir)) 
              os.rename(os.path.join(pdf_path,current_filename), os.path.join(pdf_path, ocr_dir, current_filename))    
  
  
  print "Done"
  
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