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I installed installed pdftotext module as

  1. conda install -c conda-forge poppler

  2. pip install pdftotext (I also tried pip install pdftotext==2.1.5), but it still triggers an error when I try to import it, abeit being installed successfully:

    import pdftotext

ERROR:

ImportError: DLL load failed while importing pdftotext: The specified module could not be found.

IDK what else to do; so, your help will be really appreciated:)

Humma Irshad
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I ran into the same problem and noticed that pdftotext wasn't listed in conda list. As it turned out, simply running pip install pdftotext inside a new environment installs pdftotext as a system-wide package, but not as a specific package for your current conda enviroment.

I fixed this problem by installing pip into my conda environment using the following command:

conda install pip

After that, I ran pip install pdftotext==2.1.4 (as the 2.1.5 version didn't work for me). Lastly, I checked conda list to verify the installation.

Solitude
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Personally I have had the same question. I have solved it by

  1. conda update conda .

Then I redo the same procedure

  1. conda install -c conda-forge poppler
  2. pip install pdftotext

After this 3 steps I import successfully pdftotext. I hope it also works for you.

zhao
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