Import error : cannot import name 'open_filename' from 'pdfminer.utils'

On importing pdfminer.high_level, I am getting an error cannot import name open_filename from pdfminer.utils.

I tried following steps:

1. pip3 install pdfminer.six
2. import pdfminer
3. import pdfminer.high_level

(and encountered error on this line)

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ImportError Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-6-772e4980255d> in <module>
----> 1 import pdfminer.high_level
~\anaconda3\lib\site-packages\pdfminer\high_level.py in <module> 12 from .pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter 13 from .pdfpage import PDFPage
---> 14 from .utils import open_filename 15 16
ImportError: cannot import name 'open_filename' from 'pdfminer.utils'

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3 Answers

Hi I had the same issue.

I had installed both pdfminer and pdfminer.six. Please keep pdfminer.six and uninstall pdfminer with:

pip uninstall pdfminer

I faced a similar problem: cannot import name 'open_filename' from 'pdfminer.utils' when using the langchain cookbook. Problem was python v.3.11x. I downgraded my env to 3.8.18 and it worked.

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I had an older version of pdfminer.six. This is the commit that introduced the open_filename method. Make sure your pdfminer.six version is greater than '20200402'.

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