Can't install textract on windows

Question

I\'ve tried lots of things but still fail when I\'m trying to install textract package on my Windows by using pip command.

I\'m getting the following error:

Answer 1

The solution is much simpler now that the project appears to have been taken over by another individual (recently started updating the project again as of 3 months ago when I wrote this answer.)

You can now go to https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract/releases and download v1.6.2 which provides only requirement updates over v1.6.1 (fixing the unicode debug error) or v1.6.3 which is the latest (as of writing this.)

Once downloaded, extract, cd [folder extracted to] and pip install .

Just keep in mind there is always the concern that as requirements are updated malicious code can be inserted into dependencies and update this at your own risk.