Install pdfminer.six as a Python package

To use pdfminer.six for the first time, you need to install the Python package in your Python environment.

This tutorial requires you to have a system with a working Python and pip installation. If you don’t have one and don’t know how to install it, take a look at The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!.

Install using pip

Run the following command on the commandline to install pdfminer.six as a Python package:

pip install pdfminer.six

Test pdfminer.six installation

You can test the pdfminer.six installation by importing it in Python.

Open an interactive Python session from the commandline import pdfminer .six:

>>> import pdfminer
>>> print(pdfminer.__version__)  
'<installed version>'

Now you can use pdfminer.six as a Python package. But pdfminer.six also comes with a couple of useful commandline tools. To test if these tools are correctly installed, run the following on your commandline:

$ pdf2txt.py --version
pdfminer.six <installed version>