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Hi,

I wrote a script to extract text from a pdf file using pdfplumber and pdfminer as I wanted to try both. For months the script ran fine but suddenly it started giving me the error below. When I do help("modules") in Python3 they appear on the list of available modules.

Should I reinstall Python3?

Output:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/Users/Me/Desktop/Python 3/Python project/Final pdfplumber.py", line 11, in <module>
    import pdfplumber
  File "C:\Python3.8\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .pdf import PDF
  File "C:\Python3.8\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\pdf.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .container import Container
  File "C:\Python3.8\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\container.py", line 2, in <module>
    from . import utils
  File "C:\Python3.8\lib\site-packages\pdfplumber\utils.py", line 1, in <module>
    from pdfminer.utils import PDFDocEncoding
  File "c:\Users\Me\Desktop\Python 3\Python project\pdfminer.py", line 6, in <module>
    from pdfminer.high_level import extract_text
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pdfminer.high_level'; 'pdfminer' is not a package

If you have a file named "pdfminer.py", that can interfere with the operation of a module that also uses the name "pdfminer".

Try renaming your file to something else so it doesn't conflict and try again.

(Jan-26-2021, 06:01 PM)bowlofred Wrote: [ -> ]If you have a file named "pdfminer.py", that can interfere with the operation of a module that also uses the name "pdfminer".

Try renaming your file to something else so it doesn't conflict and try again.

That solved the problem! Thanks so much bowlofred.