pdftotext is not getting installed in windows

Question

I am trying to extract data from an invoice. I found invoice2data will do that job. I have pip installed invoice2data.

from invoice2data import extract_data

This is getting imported.

result = extract_data('sample.pdf')

When I run the above line it is showing that

OSError: pdftotext not installed. Can be downloaded from https://poppler.freedesktop.org/

When I try pip installing pdftotext it was showing virtual c++ 14.0 is required.I installed it using build tools. Again it was showing the same error. So I downloaded the files from https://pypi.org/project/pdftotext/ and pasted the extracted files in my anaconda/Lib/sitepackages directory. Now when I try to pip install pdftotext it is showing Requirement already satisfied: pdftotext in c:\users\vicky\anaconda3\lib\site-packages (2.1.2) Now, when I try to extract data from the pdf it is again showing the same error that pdftotext is not installed. How can I overcome this error or is there any other package that will satisfy my requirement?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

the dep are here https://pypi.org/project/pdftotext/ just have a look and instal them before pip install pdf2text

Answer 2

some simple steps to do, which worked for me...

1. download and install Visual Studio with C++ Build Tools, as Microsoft Visual C++ is required. https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

2. Download the latest binaries of Popplers for Windows https://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/index.html

3. Extract and copy the 'poppler' folder which is inside the folder 'include'

4. Past this 'poppler' folder inside the 'Anaconda3/include/' folder

5. Then run 'pip install pdftotext'

YOU ARE DONE!!!

Answer 3

Install poppler-utils before pdftotext

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils