Text Extraction: pdf --> txt

[grahamsack]

There are a few pre-existing python packages for this...

• pypdf
• slate
• pdfminer

[jonahsmith]

FYI, I can't get Slate to work either. I might be missing something, but here is the error I'm getting:

  File "slateTest.py", line 1, in <module>
    import slate
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/__init__.py", line 48, in <module>
    from slate import PDF
  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 3, in <module>
    from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument
ImportError: cannot import name PDFDocument

Looks like there's a problem calling something in pdfminer? Graham, is this the issue you were having yesterday?

[grahamsack]

Yes. Same issue. I'm using pdfminer from command line now

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On Mar 1, 2014, at 12:38 PM, jonahsmith [email protected] wrote:

FYI, I can't get Slate to work either. I might be missing something, but here is the error I'm getting:

File "slateTest.py", line 1, in
import slate
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/init.py", line 48, in
from slate import PDF
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/slate/slate.py", line 3, in
from pdfminer.pdfparser import PDFParser, PDFDocument
ImportError: cannot import name PDFDocument
Looks like there's a problem calling something in pdfminer? Graham, is this the issue you were having yesterday?

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[aburkh]

The problem is that slate tries to import PDFDocument from pdfminer.pdfparser.
The correct module is pdfminer.pdfdocument.

[daryltucker]

I still see this issue.

I was able to sudo pip install --upgrade --ignore-installed slate==0.3 pdfminer==20110515, which are compatible versions.

The slate devs are aware.

[KurtOstergaard]

I tried the slate==0.3 and pdfminer==20110515 line and I still get an error.
Any other workarounds?

[tobiasmcnulty]

Works with slate==0.3 and pdfminer=20110515 for me

[tobiasmcnulty]

If you're inside a virtualenv make sure not to use sudo

[arderyp]

@tobiasmcnulty's suggestion works for me too. Thanks!