Converting PDF to Image with pdf2image does not work

Question

I want to convert PDF file to image file (.jpg, or .png ...). I have found this solution but I always get an error:

from pdf2image import convert_from_path 

pages = convert_from_path('sample.pdf', 500) # I have tried with full path, and with different num of pages

The error that I get:

pdf2image.exceptions.PDFInfoNotInstalledError: Unable to get page count. Is poppler installed and in PATH?

How can I fix this?

If there is any other way to convert pdf to .jpg please let me know.

Does this answer your question? [Poppler in path for pdf2image](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53481088/poppler-in-path-for-pdf2image) — Christian Baumann, Sep 28 '20 at 18:14
I cant even install poppler ! Do you know, is there any other way to do this? — taga, Sep 28 '20 at 18:19
Would you please update your question accordingly? Nobody of us has a crystal ball. ;-) — Christian Baumann, Sep 28 '20 at 18:21
@ChristianBaumann Please check this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64101224/convert-pdf-to-jpg-in-python-and-pass-it-to-tesseract — taga, Sep 28 '20 at 18:30

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '21 at 05:08

Download the Poppler method from the below link

Poppler for Windows
How to Install poppler-utils in Ubuntu/Linux
sudo apt-get install poppler-utils sudo code for ubuntu
Download the Poppler package and extract it. open the Poppler folder and copy the bin folder path to poppler_path variable (for windows only, no need for linux)

If system is windows/Linux Using platform module returns a string that displays the name of the operation system on the current device being used to run the program.

from pdf2image import convert_from_path, convert_from_bytes
import platform

if platform.system() == "Windows":     
    pages = convert_from_path(r"C:\ABC\xyz.pdf", 500,poppler_path= r'C:\ABC\poppler-0.68.0\bin')
elif if platform.system() == "Linux":
    pages = convert_from_path(r"C:\ABC\xyz.pdf", 500)
for page in pages:
    page.save(r"C:\ABC\xyz.pdf".lower().replace(".pdf",".jpg"),'JPEG')

Converting PDF to Image with pdf2image does not work

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