PDFminer in Python

Question

I downloaded the pdfminer, the commandline methods work perfectly but I want to be able to convert multiple pdf documents at the same time so I am trying to use the pdfminer as a library, I found this os stackoverflow but I can't get it to work..

from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
from pdfminer.converter import TextConverter
from pdfminer.layout import LAParams
from cStringIO import StringIO



def convert_pdf(path):

    rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager()
    retstr = StringIO()
    codec = 'utf-8'
    laparams = LAParams()
    device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams)

    fp = file(path, 'rb')
    process_pdf(rsrcmgr, device, fp)
    fp.close()
    device.close()

    str = retstr.getvalue()
    retstr.close()
    print str


convert_pdf("/Users/gorkemyurtseven/Desktop/casino.pdf")

when I run it I get:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "pdfminer.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
  File "/Users/gorkemyurtseven/Desktop/pdfminer.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, process_pdf
ImportError: No module named pdfinterp

Does `import pdfminer` produce a similar `ImportError`? Possibly pdfminer is not on your python path. If so, you might need to run `python setup.py install` from the pdfminer directory. — Matt Swain, Jul 23 '13 at 22:55

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 07 '13 at 09:56

It seems that you are calling your script pdfminer as the module and it goes crazy when trying to import a module with the same name.

Another reasons may be that pdfminer module is installed incorrectly or it is not the correct version for your python distribution.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 04 '18 at 17:15

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As explained in this post, the problem is that your file is named pdfminer.py.
Change the name and delete __pycache__/ directory and pdfminer.pyc file that are created:

$ rm -r __pycache__/ pdfminer.pyc
$ mv pdfminer.py mypdfminer.py

answered Oct 04 '18 at 17:15

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