Poppler Installation on Google Colab

Harsh Dwivedi 0
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I am trying to convert pdf to image using pdf2image module on Google Colab. I have downloaded the latest version of poppler and also installed poppler-utils. In convert_from_path() , I mentioned the correct path to poppler's bin directory, still I'm getting FileNotFoundError and PDFInfoNotInstalled Error.

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1 Answers

AFAIK, Google colab is running a Ubuntu operating system, you can discover that by running the uname -a command.

If you build poppler, the pdf* binaries are installed in /usr/bin and pdf2image can resolve them automatically.

Discover the operating system name.

!uname -a;

Linux d9b9a62155f2 5.10.133+ #1 SMP Fri Aug 26 08:44:51 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

!cat requirements.txt

pdf2image

Install python dependencies

!pip install -r requirements.txt

Install some dependencies for building poppler

!apt update
!apt-get install libnss3 libnss3-dev
!apt-get install libcairo2-dev libjpeg-dev libgif-dev
!apt-get install cmake libblkid-dev e2fslibs-dev libboost-all-dev libaudit-dev

Download and extract poppler source code.

!wget https://poppler.freedesktop.org/poppler-21.09.0.tar.xz;
!tar -xvf poppler-21.09.0.tar.xz;

Compile and install poppler.

!mkdir -p poppler-21.09.0/build && \
cd poppler-21.09.0 && \
cmake  -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release   \
       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr  \
       -DTESTDATADIR=$PWD/testfiles \
       -DENABLE_UNSTABLE_API_ABI_HEADERS=ON && \
make && \
make install

Work with the PDF file

from pdf2image import convert_from_path, convert_from_bytes

images = convert_from_path('sample.pdf', poppler_path='/usr/bin/')
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