Hi,

I'm having trouble installing pdftotext. I'm using Python 3.6 on Anaconda 5.2.0 and pip version 18.0. There seems to be a problem with gcc so I did conda install libgcc but that didn't make any difference. I also made sure python3-dev was installed.

john@john-Virtual-Machine:~/py3eg$` pip install pdftotext
Collecting pdftotext
  Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/96/41/aa31f4a6809eb0574674d6c0cf6bc0e00aaf0ea53c62db8a2d9af50b7cc6/pdftotext-2.1.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pdftotext
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pdftotext ... error
  Complete output from command /home/john/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-9uyu6ggf/pdftotext/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-epbnqs4m --python-tag cp36:
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  running build_ext
  building 'pdftotext' extension
  creating build
  creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
  gcc -pthread -B /home/john/anaconda3/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DPOPPLER_CPP_AT_LEAST_0_30_0=0 -I/home/john/anaconda3/include/python3.6m -c pdftotext.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/pdftotext.o -Wall
  cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
  pdftotext.cpp:3:10: fatal error: poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h: No such file or directory
   #include <poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h>
            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
  
  ----------------------------------------
  Failed building wheel for pdftotext
  Running setup.py clean for pdftotext
Failed to build pdftotext
Installing collected packages: pdftotext
  Running setup.py install for pdftotext ... error
    Complete output from command /home/john/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-9uyu6ggf/pdftotext/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-sx0bea7r/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
    running install
    running build
    running build_ext
    building 'pdftotext' extension
    creating build
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6
    gcc -pthread -B /home/john/anaconda3/compiler_compat -Wl,--sysroot=/ -Wsign-compare -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -DPOPPLER_CPP_AT_LEAST_0_30_0=0 -I/home/john/anaconda3/include/python3.6m -c pdftotext.cpp -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.6/pdftotext.o -Wall
    cc1plus: warning: command line option ‘-Wstrict-prototypes’ is valid for C/ObjC but not for C++
    pdftotext.cpp:3:10: fatal error: poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h: No such file or directory
     #include <poppler/cpp/poppler-document.h>
              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "/home/john/anaconda3/bin/python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-install-9uyu6ggf/pdftotext/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-record-sx0bea7r/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-install-9uyu6ggf/pdftotext/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

• add OS X Mojave to the list of platforms which require /usr/local/include to be in include_dirs
• add OS X Mojave to the list of platforms which require /usr/local/lib to be in library_dirs

Hi, I'm running on macOs and trying ton install pdftotext I tried pip install pdftotext and got this error

`Collecting pdftotext Using cached https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/a6/a7/c202adb0bcd3adc3030b0c5f7f0e21f62a721913e93296e6c4ddc305cbd3/pdftotext-2.1.2.tar.gz Building wheels for collected packages: pdftotext Building wheel for pdftotext (setup.py) ... error ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: command: /Users/romainvandelouw/venv/oreilly/bin/python3 -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/private/var/folders/zg/8mfp262s1093qtv0klghbfnr0000gn/T/pip-install-oailros8/pdftotext/setup.py'"'"'; file='"'"'/private/var/folders/zg/8mfp262s1093qtv0klghbfnr0000gn/T/pip-install-oailros8/pdftotext/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /private/var/folders/zg/8mfp262s1093qtv0klghbfnr0000gn/T/pip-wheel-yvlotdyb --python-tag cp36 cwd: /private/var/folders/zg/8mfp262s1093qtv0klghbfnr0000gn/T/pip-install-oailros8/pdftotext/ Complete output (27 lines): running bdist_wheel running build running build_ext building 'pdftotext' extension creating build creating build/temp.macosx-10.7-x86_64-3.6 gcc -Wno-unused-result -Wsign-compare -Wunreachable-code -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include -arch x86_64 -I/Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include -arch x86_64 -DPOPPLER_CPP_AT_LEAST_0_30_0=1 -I/usr/local/include -I/Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include/python3.6m -c pdftotext.cpp -o build/temp.macosx-10.7-x86_64-3.6/pdftotext.o -Wall -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 In file included from pdftotext.cpp:5: /Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:37:22: warning: rvalue references are a C++11 extension [-Wc++11-extensions] text_box(text_box&&) = default; ^ /Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:37:28: warning: defaulted function definitions are a C++11 extension [-Wc++11-extensions] text_box(text_box&&) = default; ^ /Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:38:33: warning: rvalue references are a C++11 extension [-Wc++11-extensions] text_box& operator=(text_box&&) = default; ^ /Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:38:39: warning: defaulted function definitions are a C++11 extension [-Wc++11-extensions] text_box& operator=(text_box&&) = default; ^ 4 warnings generated. creating build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64-3.6 g++ -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/lib -arch x86_64 -L/Users/romainvandelouw/anaconda/lib -arch x86_64 -arch x86_64 build/temp.macosx-10.7-x86_64-3.6/pdftotext.o -L/usr/local/lib -lpoppler-cpp -o build/lib.macosx-10.7-x86_64-3.6/pdftotext.cpython-36m-darwin.so clang: warning: libstdc++ is deprecated; move to libc++ with a minimum deployment target of OS X 10.9 [-Wdeprecated] ld: library not found for -lstdc++ clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) error: command 'g++' failed with exit status 1

ERROR: Failed building wheel for pdftotext`

I read in previous issues that it could be related to dependencies but Popler is installed

Warning: pkg-config 0.29.2 is already installed and up-to-date To reinstall 0.29.2, runbrew reinstall pkg-configWarning: poppler 0.81.0 is already installed and up-to-date To reinstall 0.81.0, runbrew reinstall poppler`

I read #26 but in my case it doesn't work outside the virtualenv either...

verbose_pdftotext.txt is the result of pip --verbose install pdftotext :

What am I missing ? Thanks for your help !

pip install pdftotext Collecting pdftotext Using cached pdftotext-2.0.1.tar.gz Installing collected packages: pdftotext Running setup.py install for pdftotext ... error Complete output from command "c:\users\vinayak sharma\appdata\local\programs\python\python35\python.exe" -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='C:\\Users\\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-6eh2vxu8\\pdftotext\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\VINAYA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-kyy39x3a-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile: WARNING: pkg-config not found--guessing at poppler version. If the build fails, install pkg-config and try again. running install running build running build_ext building 'pdftotext' extension error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat

----------------------------------------

Command ""c:\users\Local\\Temp\\pip-build-6eh2vxu8\\pdftotext\\setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record C:\Users\VINAYA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-kyy39x3a-record\install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in C:\Users\VINAYA~1\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-build-6eh2vxu8\pdftotext\

I have a pdf file and used the below code to print it out on a terminal, the hyphens at the end of the lines were not included. I created a 1 page pdf test file (using qpdf).

My test file is: https://github.com/ripspin5/scripts/blob/master/misc/test1.pdf

Code: (python3.7)

import pdftotext

# Load your PDF
with open("test1.pdf", "rb") as f:
    pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)

print(pdf[0])    

Running pip, with or without su, on MacOS produces the following error:

Command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Resources/Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;file='/private/var/folders/cm/60_4h2mj23d_70fhqwvtjf7m0000gn/T/pip-build-bd88s9/pdftotext/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(file);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, file, 'exec'))" install --record /var/folders/cm/60_4h2mj23d_70fhqwvtjf7m0000gn/T/pip-eNla3s-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/cm/60_4h2mj23d_70fhqwvtjf7m0000gn/T/pip-build-bd88s9/pdftotext/

This library is DOA until the dependency issue is resolved.

Hey,

this creates binary wheels including dependencies for the major operating systems.

For Windows: Currently, the CI will only build wheels for 64-bit Python (amd64). This is due to the libraries bundled with conda being 64-bit as well. This can be fixed by installing a 32-bit distribution of poppler. delvewheel is used to ensure that all non-system DLLs are bundled. This will not work on systems older than Windows 7 but I guess we can ignore that. I have tested this on my Windows 10 machine.

For Linux: The wheel has manylinux1 compatibility so it supports even the most ancient operating systems like CentOS 6. The latest poppler is compiled from source. I have tested this on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

For macOS: I've used the cibuildwheel example and added the dependencies like for the test jobs. It manages to create a wheel but it's only a few kilobytes so I'm kind of sceptical about this. However, I don't have a macOS system to test this on. It would be nice if someone with a Mac could test this.

The generated wheels can be downloaded here: https://dev.azure.com/jhnnbr/pdftotext/_build/results?buildId=36&view=artifacts&pathAsName=false&type=publishedArtifacts

Closes: #29

I get an error on pip install pdftotext

In file included from pdftotext.cpp:5:
/usr/local/include/poppler/cpp/poppler-page.h:63:10: error: no template named 'unique_ptr' in namespace 'std'
    std::unique_ptr<text_box_data> m_data;
    ~~~~~^
1 error generated.
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

hey, when I run the pip command it gives me the following error: ERROR: Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement pdftotext (from versions: none) ERROR: No matching distribution found for pdftotext

is there another way to install it, or solve this way?

while using pdftotext with multiprocessing module on ec2

('read pdf file', '1004.5293.pdf')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "main.py", line 44, in <module>
    result = pool.map(pdf_extract, filenames)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 251, in map
    return self.map_async(func, iterable, chunksize).get()
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/multiprocessing/pool.py", line 567, in get
    raise self._value
pdftotext.Error: Poppler error creating document

My code:

def pdf_extract(dirs):
    paths, filename = dirs
    file = filename.replace(".pdf", ".txt")
    if file in have:
        print("file alreafy extracted!!")
    else:
	print("read pdf file", filename)
        with open(os.path.join(paths, filename), "rb") as f:
            pdf = pdftotext.PDF(f)
            prin(len(pdf))
        text = "\n\n".join(pdf)
        print("converted file")
        file = filename.replace(".pdf", ".txt")
        with open(txt_path+file, "w") as f:
            f.writelines(text)
            f.close()
            print("saved file")
        time.sleep(0.01)

Link : arxiv paper

Hi all. I'm getting this error when trying to import pdftotext in a flask project and cannot figure out how to resolve it.

ImportError: dlopen(/Users/casey/PycharmProjects/virtual environments/oadoi/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdftotext.cpython-39-darwin.so, 0x0002): symbol not found in flat namespace '__ZN7poppler24set_debug_error_functionEPFvRKNSt3__112basic_stringIcNS0_11char_traitsIcEENS0_9allocatorIcEEEEPvES9_'

My installation details are:

• Mac M1
• pdftotext version 2.1.5
• Installed poppler with homebrew, set to version 22.04.0
• Ensured poppler visible to pdftotext by setting these environment variables in my shell:

export LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/lib -L/opt/homebrew/lib $LDFLAGS"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/opt/openssl/include -I/opt/homebrew/include $CPPFLAGS"

At the moment, two tests will always be skipped as they require at least poppler 0.88 which might not be available in all environments. When building own wheels for the package, it would be nice to be able to run them nevertheless if at least version 0.88 is available to verify the correct behavior before uploading.

It might make sense to expose the poppler version embedded into the Python package as well, due to it being rather variable and by (nearly) no means tied to a specific version of this package at all.

Hi All, I'm running into this error when importing pdftotext. I've followed the instructions correctly and have tried to reinstall all dependencies including all the brew packages.

ImportError: dlopen(/Users/ethannguyen/Documents/GitHub/livebuildings/env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pdftotext.so, 0x0002): symbol not found in flat namespace '__ZN7poppler24set_debug_error_functionEPFvRKNSt3__112basic_stringIcNS0_11char_traitsIcEENS0_9allocatorIcEEEEPvES9_'

My PDF's have a lot of math, symbols, figures, etc.

is there any way you know of to extract text from a page but only within one of several bounding boxes?

I basically want to set up a feedback loop where I:

1. iterate through the pages of the pdf
2. set ordered bounding boxes visually on each page
3. automatically extract and concatenate text from these bounding boxes, in their indicated order (from step 2)

Is this doable? is there a simple way to do this? what do you think?

Provide examples of how to install this module starting from some common docker images.

See https://github.com/jalan/pdftotext/issues/61#issuecomment-625118990

First of all, thanks for the handy module!

I'd be interested in having access to more of the features offered by pdftotext/xpdf to tune the quality of the extracted text.

As far as I know it is not possible to pass arguments freely to pdftotext but there are a few hardcoded parameters (password, raw).

Would that be something you would be open to add?

I'm not fluent in C++ but it seems that I could get inspiration from the existing code to try to have my arguments in.

The parameters/options in most interested in are nodiag, lineprinter, linespacing and fixed. The full list can be found here: http://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftotext-man.html