The system cannot find the file specified about pdf2image HOT 9 CLOSED

1- Open a cmd.
2- Type pdfinfo
3- Press Enter
4- Type pdftoppm
5- Press Enter

If you have any kind of error it probably means that popplers is not installed. Please see the README.md.

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yes, popplers is not installed.
I have downloaded .7z file, how to install it?

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@deepanshuagarwal150 The details are available in the README file: https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image

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Thanks for helping..problem is solved.
I have last question that do i need to keep running pdftoppm in separate cmd every time, when i am running my code

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@deepanshuagarwal150 No. Not needed afaik. That command was just for checking whether you have pdftoppm in your system.

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pdfinfo is in path

C:\billimg>pdfinfo
pdfinfo version 0.68.0
Copyright 2005-2018 The Poppler Developers - http://poppler.freedesktop.org
Copyright 1996-2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC
Usage: pdfinfo [options]
-f : first page to convert
-l : last page to convert
-box : print the page bounding boxes
-meta : print the document metadata (XML)
-js : print all JavaScript in the PDF
-struct : print the logical document structure (for tagged files)
-struct-text : print text contents along with document structure (for tagged files)
-isodates : print the dates in ISO-8601 format
-rawdates : print the undecoded date strings directly from the PDF file
-dests : print all named destinations in the PDF
-enc : output text encoding name
-listenc : list available encodings
-opw : owner password (for encrypted files)
-upw : user password (for encrypted files)
-v : print copyright and version info
-h : print usage information
-help : print usage information
--help : print usage information
-? : print usage information

The image is here

C:\billimg>dir
Volume in drive C is Windows
Volume Serial Number is CA9F-491A

Directory of C:\billimg

10/01/2019 04:22 PM

Still I get this error

C:\billimg>C:\Python36\python
Python 3.6.8 (tags/v3.6.8:3c6b436a57, Dec 24 2018, 00:16:47) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.

from pdf2image import convert_from_path, convert_from_bytes
images = convert_from_path('vzbill_paper_5476.pdf')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 350, in _page_count
proc = Popen(command, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
File "C:\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 729, in init
restore_signals, start_new_session)
File "C:\Python36\lib\subprocess.py", line 1017, 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 "", line 1, in
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 80, in convert_from_path
page_count = _page_count(pdf_path, userpw, poppler_path=poppler_path)
File "C:\Python36\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 355, in _page_count
"Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?"
pdf2image.exceptions.PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?

Why?

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I am facing the same issue in the windows is there any resolution any got on this please suggest.

Below is the error :
Python36-32\lib\site-packages\pdf2image\pdf2image.py", line 355, in _page_count proc = Popen(command, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)

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@pankajdev73 could you provide the full stacktrace, your OS, and the output of pdfinfo when exectued in your terminal/cmd?

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Solution
Download window version poppler tools from :http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/

unzip it and add the location of bin (like C:\somepath\poppler-0.67.0_x86\poppler-0.67.0\bin) to your environment PATH.

restart your CMD and python virtualenv if you are openning

source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49508931/filenotfounderror-while-using-the-function-convert-from-path-of-the-package-pd/51781856

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