window7 problem

[eelsirhc]

(copied by chris from 895500a#commitcomment-6903404)
@amccarren commented on 895500a 9 hours ago

When I run this example I get 
CalledProcessError: Command '['pdftoppm', '-h']' returned non-zero exit status 99

I am working on windows 7 and have set the path to the directory where the pdftoppm.exe is stored. 
Any suggestions?

Andrew

[eelsirhc]

I think the problem is that the executable on windows has the .exe extension, and the code is not looking for that. Depending on how familiar you are with git, if you can try the fix/dotexe branch by running git pull followed by git checkout fix/dotexe and then install as before.

This version should check for the .exe executable name and remember which version to use.

[andyli]

This should be a problem of the line at https://github.com/ashima/pdf-table-extract/blob/master/src/pdftableextract/core.py#L19
which check to see if the program can be called or not by checking its exit code (should be 0).

But pdftoppm -h returns exit code 99:

[oracuk]

This is still an issue on windows.

I can confirm exactly the same issue on Windows 7.

[zachguo]

I'm on OS X, using poppler instead of pdftoppm fixed my problem.

[ekta1007]

Here's what I did to resolve this on Mac(Yosemite) (in that order)

sudo port install xorg-libXt +flat_namespace
sudo port install openmotif 
sudo port install xpm
sudo port install xpdf
sudo port install poppler

after this re-ran the example code-worked perfectly . I think pdftoppm -h always returns a 99 exit code, so this was an easy alternative to fix.

[dwatsonbynes]

pdftoppm -h returns exit code as 99. What should be done to resolve this issue on windows(32 bit)?

[sunnn]

Any fix for this pdftoppm -h issue in Windows 7 ? @eelsirhc @eugeneai @dwatsonbynes