How to install Poppler on Windows?

Question

The most recent version of ScraperWiki depends on Poppler (or so the GitHub says). Unfortunately, it only specifies how to get it on macOS and Linux, not Windows.

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Answer 1

Chocolatey

Poppler is available as Chocolatey package:

choco install poppler

By default Poppler is installed in C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\poppler and shims are automatically created for the following tools: pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite.

To update Poppler, run:

cup poppler

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Scoop

Install from the main bucket:

scoop install poppler

By default Poppler is installed in ~\scoop\apps\poppler and shims are automatically created for the following tools: pdfdetach, pdffonts, pdfimages, pdfinfo, pdfseparate, pdftocairo, pdftohtml, pdftoppm, pdftops, pdftotext, pdfunite.

To update Poppler, run:

scoop update poppler

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TeX Live

As mentioned in another answer, MiKTeX currently ships with Poppler tools, and so does another LaTeX distribution, TeX Live. From the guide:

Command-line tools.

A number of Windows ports of common Unix command-line programs are installed along with the usual TeX Live binaries. These include gzip, zip, unzip, and the utilities from the poppler suite (pdfinfo, pdffonts, …)

Poppler suite is located by default in C:\texlive\\bin\win32 and, if you can compile your LaTeX documents, should work out of the box since this location is added to the PATH by the installer.