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Reputation: 3432

PDFminer in Python

I downloaded the pdfminer, the commandline methods work perfectly but I want to be able to convert multiple pdf documents at the same time so I am trying to use the pdfminer as a library, I found this os stackoverflow but I can't get it to work..

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from cStringIO import StringIO



def convert_pdf(path):

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    retstr = StringIO()
    codec = 'utf-8'
    laparams = LAParams()
    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    fp = file(path, 'rb')
    process_pdf(rsrcmgr, device, fp)
    fp.close()
    device.close()

    str = retstr.getvalue()
    retstr.close()
    print str


convert_pdf("/Users/gorkemyurtseven/Desktop/casino.pdf")

when I run it I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pdfminer.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
  File "/Users/gorkemyurtseven/Desktop/pdfminer.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
ImportError: No module named pdfinterp

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2969

Answers (2)

LoMaPh
LoMaPh

Reputation: 1690

As explained in this post, the problem is that your file is named pdfminer.py.
Change the name and delete __pycache__/ directory and pdfminer.pyc file that are created:

$ rm -r __pycache__/ pdfminer.pyc
$ mv pdfminer.py mypdfminer.py

Upvotes: 0

juankysmith
juankysmith

Reputation: 12448

It seems that you are calling your script pdfminer as the module and it goes crazy when trying to import a module with the same name.

Another reasons may be that pdfminer module is installed incorrectly or it is not the correct version for your python distribution.

Upvotes: 2

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