pdf2image, poppler and paths

[jehoshua]

refers to line 3 of your code. This needs to be a file name of a pdf file.

Thanks; I knew it was line 3 , but just wasn't specified correctly. The following ..

pdfs = r"~/Downloads/OCR/Tests_20220530.pdf" didn't work
pdfs = r"/home/********/Downloads/OCR/Tests_20220530.pdf" worked
pdfs = r"Tests_20220530.pdf" worked

As I wanted to have the filename as an argument, tried this

from pdf2image import convert_from_path
import sys

# Print total number of arguments
print ('Total number of arguments:', format(len(sys.argv)))

# Print all arguments
print ('Argument List:', str(sys.argv))

# Print arguments one by one
print ('First argument:',  str(sys.argv[0]))
print ('Second argument:',  str(sys.argv[1]))

filename = sys.argv[1]
pdfs = r"(filename)"
pages = convert_from_path(pdfs, 350)

i = 1
for page in pages:
    image_name = "Page_" + str(i) + ".jpg"
    page.save(image_name, "JPEG")
    i = i+1

$ python3 PDF_to_Image1.py Tests_20220530.pdf

Error:
Total number of arguments: 2
Argument List: ['PDF_to_Image1.py', 'Tests_20220530.pdf']
First argument: PDF_to_Image1.py
Second argument: Tests_20220530.pdf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/********/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdf2image/pdf2image.py", line 479, in pdfinfo_from_path
    raise ValueError
ValueError

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/********/Downloads/OCR/PDF_to_Image1.py", line 17, in <module>
    pages = convert_from_path(pdfs, 350)
  File "/home/********/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdf2image/pdf2image.py", line 98, in convert_from_path
    page_count = pdfinfo_from_path(pdf_path, userpw, poppler_path=poppler_path)["Pages"]
  File "/home/********/.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pdf2image/pdf2image.py", line 488, in pdfinfo_from_path
    raise PDFPageCountError(
pdf2image.exceptions.PDFPageCountError: Unable to get page count.
I/O Error: Couldn't open file '(filename)': No such file or directory.