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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def extract_pdfminer(self, filename, **kwargs):
 """Extract text from pdfs using pdfminer."""

        stdout, _ = self.run(['pdf2txt.py', filename])
        return stdout