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>