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DanielHe
DanielHe

Reputation: 239

tabula-py ImportError: cannot import name 'read_pdf'

Im trying to use tabula-py to transfer a table from pdf to excel.

When im trying to 

from tabula import read_pdf

it says

ImportError: cannot import name 'read_pdf'

All solutions i found say that i have to

pip uninstall tabula
pip3 install tabula-py

https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py/issues/47

Tabula-py - ImportError: No module named tabula

But its still not working for me.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 17

Views: 43405

Answers (10)

Muni Chittem
Muni Chittem

Reputation: 1126

I fixed this error by changing the python interpreter path in pychram

Upvotes: 0

Abdulrahman Bres
Abdulrahman Bres

Reputation: 2913

There is a chance that you're testing tabula-py within a module you named tabula.py

This would throw the same exact error because of module import order in Python

Upvotes: 2

sameer_nubia
sameer_nubia

Reputation: 811

Easy Solution - 1- uninstall the old tabula

pip uninstall tabula

2- install the new tabula-py

pip install tabula-py

then use the module

from tabula import read_pdf

Upvotes: 0

Ting Jing Yuan
Ting Jing Yuan

Reputation: 1

try:

from tabula.io import read_pdf
df = read_pdf('file.pdf', pages='all')

Upvotes: -1

Ajit Talekar
Ajit Talekar

Reputation: 11

Step 1:- Upgrade PIP
 python.exe -m pip install --upgrade pip --u

Step2 : make sure its upgraded in your virtual environment
(venv) D:\dMig\venv\Lib\site-packages>pip install --upgrade pip --user
Requirement already up-to-date: pip in d:\python38\lib\site-packages (20.2)

Step3: Uninstall earlier version 
(venv) D:\dMig\venv\Lib\site-packages>pip3 uninstall tabula-py

Step4: Install again
pip3 install tabula-py

Step5: Verify by below code

from tabula import read_pdf

#declare the path of your file
file_path = "E:\Activity.pdf"

#Convert your file
df = read_pdf(file_path)
print(df)

Upvotes: 1

Tyler Kirwan
Tyler Kirwan

Reputation: 11

Yes! I had this same problem. The file I was using to write the code was named 'tabula.py'. I wrote the code in a new file, with a new name, and had to delete the file named 'tabula.py'.

Once I did that the error went away.

Upvotes: 1

ujjal das
ujjal das

Reputation: 927

Maybe this is because of the version of tabula you installed.

If you installed tabula by running:

pip install tabula

You get an old version of tabula (1.0.5) that has the problem with the module .read_pdf(). To fix the problem and get a newer version of tabula, first:

uninstall tabula with the command:

pip uninstall tabula

And install the newer version of tabula with the command:

pip install tabula-py

I think this will solve your problem.

Upvotes: 16

Salih Osman
Salih Osman

Reputation: 71

I solved as follows:

  1. upgrade pip to pi3: pip install --upgrade pip --user

pip3 uninstall tabula-py

pip3 install tabula-py

That solved the problem perfectly! Good luck!

Upvotes: 5

JON
JON

Reputation: 1738

It worked for me when I have installed it with pip install tabula-py

Upvotes: 1

Jay Haran
Jay Haran

Reputation: 123

from tabula import wrapper
df = wrapper.read_pdf('my_pdf')

read_pdf is contained within 'wrapper'. Hence you import wrapper and call read_pdf from wrapper.

Upvotes: 6

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