pdf2image, poppler and paths

[jehoshua]

Seems that it still is a 'file not found' problem.

It worked when I hard coded the path and filename.

Maybe try this:

import os

path_to_pdf = os.path.join('c:\data' , 'pdfdir', 'pdfsubdir','mypdf.pdf')
Now your file is always found by using the variable path_to_pdf 

Thanks; I couldn't get that to work, however it caused me to investigate what that "r" in

pdfs = r"provide path to pdf file"

was used for. Found a good article at https://www.codespeedy.com/how-does-carr...in-python/ , then realised I didn't need that "r" at all. As I needed the PDF filename to be an argument, it now works okay as

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 = 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