Install Poppler for Python on Mac
I need to extract pdf annotations in Python. All my searches indicate I need Poppler to do this e.g. to run this But I am having a lot of trouble installing Poppler. I'm using Python 3.4 on OS X (Yosemite). Here's what I've tried so far: 1. pip pip3 install python-poppler-qt4 which gives ImportError: No module named 'sipdistutils' 2. Next I tried pip3 install pypoppler And got NameError: name 'file' is not defined 3. Next I tried downloading from here Same error as 1. I searched for sipdistutils and found this which I thought might be it. I copied it to the folder and tried pip again. This