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Poppler is a PDF rendering library based on the xpdf-3.0 code base. I have already downloaded the tar.xz file from the official site http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ But I do not know what to do with this file

Is there any command to install or run?

P.S. - I am new to linux, so I don't know a lot about it yet..

Martin Thoma
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Arshdeep Singh Bakshi
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  • See also: [AskUbuntu: How to install poppler >= 0.73 on ubuntu 20.04 (any change since 18.04?)](https://askubuntu.com/q/1240998/327339) – Gabriel Staples Nov 04 '22 at 07:21

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Not sure how it worked in 15.04, but I know in 16.04 (Xenial), the package's official name is poppler-utils:

http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/poppler-utils

And thus can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install -y poppler-utils

The marked answer by codefreak is not correct if you need the poppler-command-line tools, such as pdftotext. Also, installing Python poppler via apt-get doesn't seem to play nice if you're on a customized system, e.g. one that is running off of the Anaconda distribution.

dancow
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  • This works for me. Note that `python-poppler` package does not have the command line utilities such as `pdftoppm`. – jdhao Sep 04 '20 at 12:35
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What you downloaded from poppler site is source code and you may not be expert enough to install it yourself. For such situations, Ubuntu and other linux distros manage packages of popular software so you don't have to go through manual installation via source code. In your case, poppler for python is available in package python-poppler which can be installed via Ubuntu's package manager apt.

To install poppler python bindings open terminal and run this:

sudo apt-get install python-poppler

You should have poppler available in python then.

To search for such packages in future you can do apt-cache search poppler. It will list down all packages you can install via apt.

codefreak
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  • Thanks a lot for the response. It worked fine. Was stuck because of this for a while now. – Arshdeep Singh Bakshi Aug 23 '15 at 09:36
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    I've followed these steps and keep getting import error (No module named poppler). I'm using ubuntu 16.04. What am I missing? – fanny Jan 31 '17 at 14:18
  • @codefreak I'm trying to download and utilize the poppler package from [here] (https://poppler.freedesktop.org/). I've downloaded both the latest stable release on Dec 28, 2019 together with the poppler encoding data. I've no idea how to install them so that I can use them in python. where do I execute the `sudo apt-get install python-poppler` on windows? cmd terminal or anaconda terminal ? – clover Dec 30 '19 at 16:17
  • @clover I don't really know about windows much but may be this can be of help: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18381713/how-to-install-poppler-on-windows – codefreak Jan 03 '20 at 17:58
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Go to link below https://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/focal/main/base/poppler-utils And only click appropriate box to install

jdhao
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so run these commands on you system

  • step 1 sudo apt-get update
  • step 2 sudo apt install -y software-properties-common
  • step 3 sudo apt update
  • step 4 sudo add-apt-repository main
  • step 5 sudo add-apt-repository universe
  • step 6 sudo add-apt-repository restricted
  • step 7 sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
  • step 8 apt-get install -y poppler-utils
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