Open a PDF, convert and normalize text to compare to a value in an excel sheet

def pdf_to_txt(file_name):
    try:
        text = textract.process(file_name)
        text = str(text).replace("\\n", "")
        text = str(text).replace("\\t", "")
        text = str(text).replace("\\r", "")
        text = str(text).replace("b", "")
        text = str(text).replace("'", "")
        #text = str(text).replace("-", "")
        text = str(text).replace(".", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("/", " ")
        text = str(text).replace(":", " ")
        text = str(text).replace(",", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("\\", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("  ", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("   ", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("    ", " ")
        text = str(text).replace("     ", " "