ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfplumber'

[sollama]

Describe the bug

I'm working in jupyter notebook. I'm unable to import pdfplumber for some reason

Code to reproduce the problem

!pip install pdfplumber --user import pdfplumber

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Expected behavior

For the import cell to run through

Actual behavior

What actually happened, instead? Screenshot shows that pdfplumber was installed successfully, but I received a ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfplumber'.

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Environment

• pdfplumber version: [e.g., 0.5.22]
• Python version: [e.g., 3.8.1]
• OS: [e.g., Mac, Linux, etc.]

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[jsvine]

Hi @sollama, and thanks for your interest in this library. Usually when I see errors like that, it's unrelated to pdfplumber but rather more generally related to the Python environment. One way to test this: What happens if you try doing the same thing, but instead of pdfplumber you try installing and importing any other external Python library, e.g., requests?

[jsvine]

Looking more closely at the error messages, it appears that you may be using pip in an Anaconda environment. What if you try replacing !pip install pdfplumber with !conda install pdfplumber?

[sollama]

Hi,

Thanks for getting back so quickly.

1. Installing and importing requests has no error
2. I tried using !conda install pdfplumber. I received this error:

Like they suggested, I went on the anaconda site to find the package and tried this next. I still got an error, error message pasted below.

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Looking more closely at the error messages, it appears that you may be using pip in an Anaconda environment. What if you try replacing !pip install pdfplumber with !conda install pdfplumber?

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[jsvine]

Thanks for sharing that. And, hmmm, I'm not very familiar with Anaconda/conda debugging, so I'm not quite sure what's going on there. As an alternative, perhaps create a new, pure-pip environment, and retry there? Something like:

cd path/to/my/project
python -m venv venv  # create the virtual environment
source venv/bin/activate # activate it
pip install jupyter pdfplumber # install the libraries
jupyter notebook # launch a Jupyter notebook from within the environment

[samkit-jain]

@sollama Have you tried installing pdfplumber without --user? Using --user is not required when you are running inside a virtual environment. I tested this on Google Colaborator and if I install via --user, I can't import the package but if I install without it, I am able to use just fine.

[sollama]

It worked when I installed without the - - user. Thank you all for your help :)

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@sollama https://github.com/sollama Have you tried installing pdfplumber without --user? Using --user is not required when you are running inside a virtual environment. I tested this on Google Colaborator https://colab.research.google.com/ and if I install via --user, I can't import the package but if I install without it, I am able to use just fine.

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