pdf2image.exceptions.PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH? about pdf2image HOT 14 CLOSED

@Belval
I found the cause of the problem:
PyCharm's terminal input pdfinfo command is not recognized.

Typing pdfinfo into the MAC terminal is identifiable.

This means that the terminal in PyCharm cannot read the environment variable of ~/.bash_profile, I only need to run the program in the system terminal.

Thank you for every reply, let me get the idea.

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https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/208567485-Pycharm-terminal-is-missing-part-of-PATH

The problem seems to happen only with "shell integration" enabled.

If I uncheck Tools > Terminal > "shell integration" terminal will load normally, with full $PATH and normal settings.

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Indeed, this is a probably a real bug then. Unfortunately the current code hides the actual exception.

If you would be so kind, please edit https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image/blob/master/pdf2image/pdf2image.py#L186 to print the actual exception so I'll be more able to help you. Something like:

except Exception as ex:
    raise ex

Would do the trick.

You can edit it directly in /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/lib/python3.6/site-packages/pdf2image/pdf2image.py (the path in your flask stacktrace)

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@Belval
I tried to write a typical python script. It will still report an error. I am confused why I can't find the pdfinfo command.

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We ran into this issue when we were building release package using jenkins, we were able to resolve this issue by updating the permissions on the poppler_binaries directory, execute the below command to fix the permissions.

chmod ugo+rwx -R package/poppler_binaries

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@Belval
我试图编写一个典型的python脚本。它仍然会报告错误。我很困惑为什么找不到pdfinfo命令。

Haven't you solved it yet?Download poppler-0.68.0_x86,and add path: ''C:\poppler-0.68.0\bin''.
Your Finished

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Hi!

First, open a terminal and try to invoke pdfinfo manually to see if your installation was successful.

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@Belval
Thank you for your reply. Pdfinfo can be output correctly。

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@Belval
I edited pdf2image.py according to your instructions, and then ran the program to output this error: FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'pdfinfo': 'pdfinfo'

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I don't have a machine with OSX to test, but I think this could be related to flask. It is possible that it's running in a special instance, like a docker container? Try running your conversion code as a typical python script.

A good test would be to simply spawn a live python shell, import pdf2image, and convert the PDF in there.

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That would probably boil down to how OSX deals with installation I suppose, maybe it needs to be installed in system PATH? Or there is a special process to make is accessible to other processes?

I'm really making blind guesses here as I have no way to test without a Mac.

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Glad you got it sorted out!

I'll be closing this for now, as I do not think much can be done on pdf2image side to fix this.

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Hello,

I'm having the same problem in a docker container and I can't find the package/poppler_binaries directory in it. Do you have other insight to solve this problem ?

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I had same problems on Centos 7 server (on Ubuntu apt-get instead yum ).
My solution:

1. install pdfinfo (it is in package poppler-utils)

sudo yum update -y
sudo yum install -y poppler-utils

2. wrap try-except string 186 in pdf2image.py (my path is something like that venv/lib/site-packages/pdf2image):

try:    
    processes.append(
            (thread_output_file, Popen(args, env=env, stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE))
        )
except Exception as err:   
    print(err)

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