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.

A

Answer 1

To Simply install Poppler on Windows run through the below mentioned steps without touching the environmental varible.

1. Download the Latest Poppler Binary from the URL: http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/index.html
2. Unzip it and copy the poppler-0.68.0_x86 folder in some path for ex, C:/User/Poppler/poppler-0.68.0_x86/poppler-0.68.0/bin

Now go to your Python code where you want to call Poppler for image conversion and use the below mentioned code snippet:

from pdf2image import convert_from_path
pages = convert_from_path('MyPdf.pdf', 500, poppler_path = r'C:\User\Poppler\poppler-0.68.0_x86\poppler-0.68.0\bin')
for page in pages:
    page.save('out.jpg', 'JPEG')