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Kanna Kim
Kanna Kim

Reputation: 381

PyPDF2 giving me an invalid argument error

I'm trying to parse text from pdf file. while I was doing tutorial of how to PyPDF2 I got the following error. I did the search for an answer but ended up finding none. Any Help will be greatly appreciated.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:/text_recognizer/main.py", line 4, in <module>
    inputStream = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(input)
  File "D:\KimKanna's Class\python27\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1084, in __init__
    self.read(stream)
  File "D:\KimKanna's Class\python27\lib\site-packages\PyPDF2\pdf.py", line 1689, in read
    stream.seek(-1, 2)
IOError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument

here is fullcode

import PyPDF2

with open(".\\pdf\\test_sample.pdf","rb") as input:
    inputStream = PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(input)

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2158

Answers (1)

darla_sud
darla_sud

Reputation: 359

In my case the .pdf I wanted to open is empty and not closed from previous python code in powershell(cmd prompt). So, when I tried to delete those files it says 'Close the file and try again'. (that was my "AHaa" moment)

So I stopped the py.exe from my Windows task manager and deleted those empty, not closed files. Then I run the same code with another files, It worked fine.. :)

Upvotes: 2

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