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dbashford / textract

node.js module for extracting text from html, pdf, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, csv, pptx, png, jpg, gif, rtf and more!
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'pdftotext' does not appear to be installed #213

Open codingalien-d opened 3 years ago

codingalien-d commented 3 years ago

We are getting an issue with pdftotext. installed the package here in /usr/local/bin.

It is working in local machine. when we tried in the server, we got this issue

extractor for type exists, but failed to initialize. Message: INFO: 'pdftotext' does not appear to be installed, so textract will be unable to extract PDFs.

Did we missed any packages or steps? Please help us to solve this issue.

OS: ubuntu

gabrielkf commented 3 years ago

Try to install poppler-utils:

sudo apt install poppler-utils

It worked on CentOS 5, btw, but I spent a lot of time trying to find some rpm package.

Adding it to the README would have saved me a lot of time.