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Unable to install PDFMiner

I am trying to install the PDFMiner library, and after downloading the tar.gz file from 

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfminer/

Afterwards, it says to run the setup.py file, but after extracting the files using 7ZIP, for some weird reason there is no setup.py file. I have attached an image of how the extracted folder looks like.

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Solution

  • To install PDFMiner, follow these step-

    1. Install python 2.4 or newer. (Python 3.x is not supported.)

    2. Download the PDFMiner source.

    3. Unpack it. (ie. extract the archive)

    4. Run setup.py to install: python setup.py install

    That's it!