Why does Xpdf not work on Windows

Asked Aug 24 '17 at 01:02

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I am writing a program using invoice2data which requires me to use Xpdf. I am coding on Windows platform. Though I have installed I get the Error message as pdftotext not installed. Can someone help me with why it does not work? I also changed the path in environment variables. Still does not work.

Below is my code

def to_text(path):
    """
    Wrapper around Poppler pdftotext.
    """
    if spawn.find_executable("pdftotext"): #shutil.which('pdftotext'):
    out, err = subprocess.Popen(
        ["pdftotext", '-layout', '-enc', 'UTF-8', path, '-'],
        stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()
    return out
    else:
    raise EnvironmentError('pdftotext not installed. Can be downloaded from 
    https://poppler.freedesktop.org/')

edited Aug 24 '17 at 02:15

OneCricketeer

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asked Aug 24 '17 at 01:02

Herchelle

You may want to include your code so users can review and provide a response – dat3450 Aug 24 '17 at 01:11
Included. Thanks – Herchelle Aug 24 '17 at 02:12
Is the indentation correct? You're explicitly raising your own errors – OneCricketeer Aug 24 '17 at 02:16
I checked the indentation. While pasting here it changed but otherwise my indentation is right. My module will check for pdftotext and display the error as not installed when not found. – Herchelle Aug 24 '17 at 05:57

Why does Xpdf not work on Windows

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