Poppler in path for pdf2image - python-3.x

Question

I'm trying to use pdf2image and it seems I need something called propeller :
(sum_env) C:\Users\antoi\Documents\Programming\projects\summarizer>python ocr.py -i fr13_idf.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "c:\Users\antoi\Documents\Programming\projects\summarizer\sum_env\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 165, in __page_count
proc = Popen(["pdfinfo", pdf_path], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
File "C:\Python37\lib\subprocess.py", line 769, in __init__
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Python37\lib\subprocess.py", line 1172, in _execute_child
startupinfo)
FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "ocr.py", line 53, in <module>
pdfspliterimager(image_path)
File "ocr.py", line 32, in pdfspliterimager
pages = convert_from_path("document-page%s.pdf" % i, 500)
File "c:\Users\antoi\Documents\Programming\projects\summarizer\sum_env\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 30, in convert_from_path
page_count = __page_count(pdf_path, userpw)
File "c:\Users\antoi\Documents\Programming\projects\summarizer\sum_env\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 169, in __page_count
raise Exception('Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?')
Exception: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?
I tried this link but it the thing to download didn't solved my problem.

Answer 1

pdf2image is only a wrapper around poppler (not propeller!), to use the module you need to have poppler-utils installed on your machine and in your path.
The procedure is linked in the project's README in the "How to install" section.

Answer 2

1st of all Download Poppler from here here,Then extract it.In the code section just add poppler_path=r'C:\Program Files\poppler-0.68.0\bin'(for eg.) like below
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
images = convert_from_path("mypdf.pdf", 500,poppler_path=r'C:\Program Files\poppler-0.68.0\bin')
for i, image in enumerate(images):
fname = 'image'+str(i)+'.png'
image.save(fname, "PNG")
Now its done.With this trick no need to add Environmental Variables.Let me know if you have any problem.

Answer 3

These pdf2image and pdftotext library backend requierment is Poppler,
so you have to install
'conda install -c conda-forge poppler '
then the error will be resolved.
and if still it won't work for you then you can follow
http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/ to install this library.

Answer 4

It is poppler which is not installed properly.
Using this you can get correct package for installation.
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils

Answer 5

For windows; to solve PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH? :
Install chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/install
then install poppler using choco:
choco install poppler

Answer 6

Poppler in path for pdf2image
While working with pdf2image there are dependency that needs to be satisfied:
Installation of pdf2image
pip install pdf2image
Installation of python-dateutil
pip install python-dateutil
Installation of Poppler
Specifying Poppler path in environment variable (system path)
Installing Poppler on Windows
Go to https://github.com/oschwartz10612/poppler-windows/releases/
Under Release 21.11.0-0 Latest v21.11.0-0
Go to Assets 3
Download Release-21.11.0-0.zip
Adding Poppler to path
Add Poppler installed to loaction :C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\Release-21.11.0-0.zip
Add C:\Users\UserName\Downloads\Release-21.11.0-0.zip to system
variable path in Environment Variable
Specifying poppler path in code
pages = convert_from_path(filepath, poppler_path=r"actualpoppler_path")

Answer 7

If anyone still has this error on Windows, I solved the problem by:
Download the Latest binary of Poppler for Windows from Poppler for Windows
Unzip it into C drive like C:\poppler-0.68.0
Specify the Poppler path like this:
from PIL import Image
import pytesseract
import sys
from pdf2image import convert_from_path
import os
ROOT_DIR = os.path.abspath(os.curdir)
# Path of the pdf
PDF_file = ROOT_DIR + r"\PdfToImage\src\2.pdf"
'''
Part #1 : Converting PDF to images
'''
# Store all the pages of the PDF in a variable
pages = convert_from_path(PDF_file, 500, poppler_path=r'C:\poppler-0.68.0\bin')

Answer 8

FOR MAC, if you have brew installed, that is the way to go.
brew install poppler
Takes several minutes to install all the dependencies, but pdf2image will work afterwards.
This is a repeat of an answer here and the answer is also in a comment on this page. Adding this answer b/c it took me a while to find the correct solution FOR MACs.

Answer 9

In Windows
Install the Poppler for Windows Poppler
500 = Quality of JPG
the path contains the pdf files
pip install pdf2img
path = r'C:\ABC\FEF\KLH\pdf_extractor\output\break'
def spliting_pdf2img( path):
from pdf2image import convert_from_path, convert_from_bytes
for file in os.listdir(path):
if file.lower().endswith(".pdf"):
pages = convert_from_path(os.path.join(path,file), 500,poppler_path= r'C:\ABC\DEF\Downloads\poppler-0.68.0\bin')
for page in pages:
page.save(os.path.join(path,file.lower().replace(".pdf",".jpg")),'JPEG')
In Linux/UBUNTU
Install the below packages in the ubuntu/linux terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
path = r'C:\ABC\FEF\KLH\pdf_extractor\output\break'
def spliting_pdf2img( path):
from pdf2image import convert_from_path, convert_from_bytes
for file in os.listdir(path):
if file.lower().endswith(".pdf"):
pages = convert_from_path(os.path.join(path,file), 500)
for page in pages:
page.save(os.path.join(path,file.lower().replace(".pdf",".jpg")),'JPEG')

Answer 10

I'm working on a mac in Visual Studio Code and I encountered this error. I followed the install instructions and was able to verify the packages were installed but the error persisted when running in VSC.
Even though I had my python.condaPath and python.pythonPath specified in my settings.json it wasn't until activated the conda environment inside of the VSC integrated terminal itself
conda activate my_env
that the error went away..
Bizarre.

Answer 11

After downloading poppler do this....
import os
os.environ["PATH"] = r"C:.....\poppler-xxxxxxx\bin"
use this to make environment hope it works.It worked for me.

Answer 12

I had the same problem on my Mac
I solved it by replacing the poppler_path from - poppler_path= '\usr\bin'
" to poppler_path= '\usr\local\bin'
but you can try to print all the places that poppler might be in your mac
by echo $PATH in the Terminal and try all the options as poppler_path=" "

Answer 13

I had the same issue on Mac using Visual Studio Code and a conda environment.
I found out that I could run the code from the command line, however not from VS code. I then printed the environment variables when running from the command line and in VS code using:
print(os.environ)
When I compared the two, I noticed that the "PATH" variable was different. My conda environment was not in the "PATH" variable in VS code. I think this means that VS code was not correctly activating my conda environment. I therefore took my "PATH" from the command line and set it in my launch.json environment variables. Then the problem was fixed.
"configurations": [
{
"name": "Python: Current File",
"type": "python",
"request": "launch",
"python": "/Users/<username>/miniconda3/envs/<env_name>/bin/python",
"env": {
"PATH":"<PATH STRING from command line>"
},
"program": "${file}"
}

Answer 14

I kind of followed the steps from one of the previous posted answers except I had to add the path in env variables. Adding path in pdf2image.convert_from_path didn't worked for me. So, if anyone still has this error on Windows, I solved the problem by:
Download the Latest binary of Poppler for Windows from Poppler
Windows
Unzip it into C drive like C:\poppler-0.68.0
Specify the Poppler path in environment variables
Poppler path in env variables

Answer 15

I had same issue but I have fixed it in my django project by changing directory.
Actually first you need to store this pdf image file in side your media directory.
Then you need to change your current directory to this media directory(where this pdf image file has been stored).
This is my code snippet in django project where I have converted .pdf image to .jpg
import PIL
from PIL import Image
def convert_pdf_2_image(uploaded_image_path, uploaded_image,img_size):
project_dir = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(uploaded_image_path)
file_name = str(uploaded_image).replace('.pdf','')
output_file = file_name+'.jpg'
pages = convert_from_path(uploaded_image, 200)
for page in pages:
page.save(output_file, 'JPEG')
break
os.chdir(project_dir)
img = Image.open(output_file)
img = img.resize(img_size, PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS)
img.save(output_file)
return output_file