OS (WINDOWS) SUPPORT

[knana1662]

Please does textract support windows because I can run it on my windows 10 laptop. Please any assistance received would be very beneficial.

[alirobe]

You might like to try using the windows subsystem for linux @knana1662

[mingjun1120]

Hi, I am also facing the same issue here. Below is my code snippet of using textract:

doc = textract.process(f"Attention is All You Need.pdf")
doc

Then, it shows this error:

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FileNotFoundError                         Traceback (most recent call last)
File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\utils.py:87, in ShellParser.run(self, args)
     86 try:
---> 87     pipe = subprocess.Popen(
     88         args,
     89         stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE,
     90     )
     91 except OSError as e:

File [~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py:971](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/c%3A/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF%20Chatbot/~/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/lib/subprocess.py:971), in Popen.__init__(self, args, bufsize, executable, stdin, stdout, stderr, preexec_fn, close_fds, shell, cwd, env, universal_newlines, startupinfo, creationflags, restore_signals, start_new_session, pass_fds, user, group, extra_groups, encoding, errors, text, umask, pipesize)
    968             self.stderr = io.TextIOWrapper(self.stderr,
    969                     encoding=encoding, errors=errors)
--> 971     self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds,
    972                         pass_fds, cwd, env,
    973                         startupinfo, creationflags, shell,
    974                         p2cread, p2cwrite,
    975                         c2pread, c2pwrite,
    976                         errread, errwrite,
    977                         restore_signals,
    978                         gid, gids, uid, umask,
    979                         start_new_session)
    980 except:
    981     # Cleanup if the child failed starting.

File [~\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py:1440](https://file+.vscode-resource.vscode-cdn.net/c%3A/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF%20Chatbot/~/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python310/lib/subprocess.py:1440), in Popen._execute_child(self, args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, pass_fds, cwd, env, startupinfo, creationflags, shell, p2cread, p2cwrite, c2pread, c2pwrite, errread, errwrite, unused_restore_signals, unused_gid, unused_gids, unused_uid, unused_umask, unused_start_new_session)
   1439 try:
-> 1440     hp, ht, pid, tid = _winapi.CreateProcess(executable, args,
   1441                              # no special security
   1442                              None, None,
   1443                              int(not close_fds),
   1444                              creationflags,
   1445                              env,
   1446                              cwd,
   1447                              startupinfo)
   1448 finally:
   1449     # Child is launched. Close the parent's copy of those pipe
   1450     # handles that only the child should have open.  You need
   (...)
   1453     # pipe will not close when the child process exits and the
   1454     # ReadFile will hang.

FileNotFoundError: [WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

ShellError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[9], line 1
----> 1 doc = textract.process(f"Attention is All You Need.pdf")
      2 doc

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\__init__.py:79, in process(filename, input_encoding, output_encoding, extension, **kwargs)
     76 # do the extraction
     78 parser = filetype_module.Parser()
---> 79 return parser.process(filename, input_encoding, output_encoding, **kwargs)

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\utils.py:46, in BaseParser.process(self, filename, input_encoding, output_encoding, **kwargs)
     36 """Process ``filename`` and encode byte-string with ``encoding``. This
     37 method is called by :func:`textract.parsers.process` and wraps
     38 the :meth:`.BaseParser.extract` method in `a delicious unicode
     39 sandwich `_.
     40 
     41 """
     42 # make a "unicode sandwich" to handle dealing with unknown
     43 # input byte strings and converting them to a predictable
     44 # output encoding
     45 # http://nedbatchelder.com/text/unipain/unipain.html#35
---> 46 byte_string = self.extract(filename, **kwargs)
     47 unicode_string = self.decode(byte_string, input_encoding)
     48 return self.encode(unicode_string, output_encoding)

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\pdf_parser.py:29, in Parser.extract(self, filename, method, **kwargs)
     27             return self.extract_pdfminer(filename, **kwargs)
     28         else:
---> 29             raise ex
     31 elif method == 'pdfminer':
     32     return self.extract_pdfminer(filename, **kwargs)

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\pdf_parser.py:21, in Parser.extract(self, filename, method, **kwargs)
     19 if method == '' or method == 'pdftotext':
     20     try:
---> 21         return self.extract_pdftotext(filename, **kwargs)
     22     except ShellError as ex:
     23         # If pdftotext isn't installed and the pdftotext method
     24         # wasn't specified, then gracefully fallback to using
     25         # pdfminer instead.
     26         if method == '' and ex.is_not_installed():

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\pdf_parser.py:44, in Parser.extract_pdftotext(self, filename, **kwargs)
     42 else:
     43     args = ['pdftotext', filename, '-']
---> 44 stdout, _ = self.run(args)
     45 return stdout

File [c:\Users\ILLEGEAR\OneDrive\Desktop\PDF](file:///C:/Users/ILLEGEAR/OneDrive/Desktop/PDF) Chatbot\pdfcb_env\lib\site-packages\textract\parsers\utils.py:95, in ShellParser.run(self, args)
     91 except OSError as e:
     92     if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
     93         # File not found.
     94         # This is equivalent to getting exitcode 127 from sh
---> 95         raise exceptions.ShellError(
     96             ' '.join(args), 127, '', '',
     97         )
     98     else: raise #Reraise the last exception unmodified
    100 # pipe.wait() ends up hanging on large files. using
    101 # pipe.communicate appears to avoid this issue

ShellError: The command `pdftotext Attention is All You Need.pdf -` failed with exit code 127
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